Inferring power-relevant thoughts and feelings in others: A signal detection analysis

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serval:BIB_B5EC75275DE2
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Inferring power-relevant thoughts and feelings in others: A signal detection analysis
Journal
European Journal of Social Psychology
Author(s)
Schmid Mast M., Hall J. A., Ickes W.
ISSN
0046-2772
Publication state
Published
Issued date
06/2006
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
36
Number
4
Pages
469-478
Language
english
Abstract
Drawing inferences about other people's thoughts and feelings related to power issues ('power-relevant' thoughts and feelings) can affect how hierarchies are formed. Perceivers who infer such thoughts and feelings can be biased (i.e., over- or underestimating the occurrence of power-relevant thoughts and feelings). We investigated whether the perceiver's gender and the perceiver's preference for a high or low power position ('power preference') affects the perceiver's bias toward attributing power-relevant thoughts and feelings to others. Participants were 80 female and 35 male students who indicated their power preference and then guessed whether videotaped target individuals had experienced power-relevant thoughts and feelings or not. Using a signal detection approach, we found that men who preferred a high power position overestimated the occurrence of power-relevant thoughts and feelings in others more than men who preferred a low power position. No such difference in overestimation bias was found for women.
Keywords
Dominance hierarchies: Gender, Meta-analysis, Situations
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