Effects of Relative Power on Cognitive Perspective-Taking
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 4 (2) , 256-259
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727800400217
Abstract
College students (N=125) were randomly assigned to one of five levels of relative power in a relationship: No power, low power, equal power, high power, and absolute Power. Subjects with absolute power, compared to subjects in the other conditions, were found to be less interested in cognitive perspective-taking and more interested in affective perspective-taking. Compared to subjects in the equal and absolute power conditions, subjects in the no power condition were more suspicious that the other would compete rather than cooperate.Keywords
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