Coercive Strategies in Power-Dependence Relations

这一奖项为一项关于奖励或惩罚他人能力所衍生的两种权力基础的影响的实验研究提供了支持。早期的研究发现，惩罚权的效果始终弱于奖励权。奖励他人的权力的结构性失衡通过在参与者之间产生不对称的交换来持续地影响行为。惩罚他人的权力的结构性失衡并不一定会影响个人的行为和行动。奖励权只要求行为人追求自己的私利，而惩罚权要求行为人对他人的行为进行应急监控和反应。这项工作将继续进行一系列实验，旨在测试一种理论，以解释为什么基于奖励和惩罚的权力会产生如此不同的影响。这些新的实验正在检验一些假设，这些假设源自对参与者对用电风险和用电公平性的评估如何影响基于奖惩的资源的战略使用的分析。这一研究计划将对社会行为以及资源获取和奖惩他人能力方面的结构性不平等对个人行为和社会交换的影响做出重大贡献。

This award provides support for an experimental study of the effects of two bases of power derived from the capacity to reward or to punish others. Earlier research found that the effects of punishment power were consistently weaker than those of reward power. A structural imbalance in the power to reward others consistently affect behavior by producing asymmetric exchanges between actors. A structural imbalance in the power to punish others does not necessarily affect the behavior and actions of individuals. Reward power requires only that actors pursue their own self interest, but punishment power requires actors to monitor and respond contingently to others' actions. This work will continue a series of experiments designed to test a theory to explain why reward-and punishment based power have such different effects. The new experiments are testing hypotheses derived from an analysis of how actors' assessments of the risk of power use and the fairness of power use affect the strategic use of reward and punishment-based resources. This research program will make a significant contribution to the study of social behavior and the effects of structural inequalities in the access to resources and the capacity to reward or punish others on individual behavior and social exchange.