The powerful disregard social comparison information
The powerful disregard social comparison information
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jesp.2011.10.010
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Camille S. Johnson;J. Lammers
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作者：
Camille S. Johnson;J. Lammers
社会比较是重要的，因为其他人可以作为基准来确定自己的能力，并作为灵感的来源。尽管如此，人们并不总是充分利用社会比较信息。本研究表明，权力感可能会减少社会比较信息的使用。在三个实验中，参与者首先被诱导感觉权力高或低，或者处于控制状态。然后，他们暴露于向上或向下的比较目标。在所有三个实验中，低功率参与者对目标的反应是对比或同化，而高功率参与者则没有。这对我们理解人们在社会和组织等级中的地位如何影响他们的基本心理功能具有重要意义。
Social comparisons are important because other people can serve as benchmarks to determine one's own capabilities and act as sources for inspiration. Despite this, people do not always fully utilize social comparison information. The present paper demonstrates that feelings of power may reduce use of social comparison information. In three experiments, participants were first induced to feel high or low in power, or were in a control condition. Then, they were exposed to either upward or downward comparison targets. In all three experiments, low power participants responded to targets with contrast or assimilation, whereas high power participants did not. This has important implications for our understanding of how people's positions in the social and organizational hierarchies affect their basic psychological functioning.