What is it about?
This research shows that to understand the effect of power on pro-social behavior it is necessary, first, to distinguish subjectively experienced power from structural power and, second, to consider the context in which pro-social behavior is enacted. We show that being high in experienced power but low in structural power strengthens the effect of an important contextual factor - procedural justice - on pro-social behavior.
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Why is it important?
Prior work studying the effects of power on pro-social behavior have focused only on how power affects the influence of dispositions; we show that power can do much more, that is, influencing the effects of contextual factors. We also show why it is important to not make broad claims about effects of power, but to make specific claims about distinct aspects of power.
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I and my coauthors have worked on this project for more than five years. It is great to see it finally developing into a piece of work that challenges many assumptions that people - including scholars - have about what power does to those who possess it.
Marius Van Dijke
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
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This page is a summary of: Ranking low, feeling high: How hierarchical position and experienced power promote prosocial behavior in response to procedural justice., Journal of Applied Psychology, February 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/apl0000260.
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