Non-instrumental liking tendencies toward powerful groupmembers
1964; Elsevier BV; Volume: 22; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0001-6918(64)90027-7
ISSN1873-6297
AutoresMauk Mulder, Rob van Dijk, Sibe Soutendijk, Tilly Stelwagen, Jan Verhagen,
Tópico(s)Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
ResumoIn a laboratory experiment, groups worked on tasks under a groupleader (O), who could give the groupmembers either small or medium or large rewards and fines. Thus three variations of the amount of power, the leader had (the power distance O-S), were manipulated. Also it was intended to introduce, besides a non-locomotion variation, two different upward locomotion probabilities; this manipulation did not succeed. The different power conditions produced behavior, predicted with a power distance reduction hypothesis, that is: stronger liking- and likeness tendencies manifested themselves, when the power distance between S and the more powerful O was small. These relationships had been studied in an earlier experiment in which the “phenotypical” situation was quite different: this adds to the generalizeability of the tested hypothesis. Some problems are indicated in the study, which are left unexplained.
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