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Dear colleagues,

I recall reading a summary of a paper in which the authors examined how the interaction between power and status influenced control over others.

Based on my recollection, they found that individuals in the low status/high power condition, exerted more arbitrary control over others (e.g., making them complete more tasks).

I thought Adam Galinsky was one of the authors, but I can't find it searching for these terms and his name.

If you happen to know this paper, please send me the citation.

Best,

Jason Pierce

Jason R. Pierce

Assistant Professor

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

http://mypage.iu.edu/~jrpierce/

jason.pierce@uai.cl

Thanks to some helpful colleagues, I now have the paper I was trying to find:

Thanks to all those who responded.

The details of the paper are below for others who might be interested.

Kindly,

Jason

Fast, N. J., Halevy, N., & Galinsky, A. D. (2012). The destructive nature of power without status. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 391-394.

Abstract:

The current research explores how roles that possess power but lack status influence behavior toward others. Past research has primarily examined the isolated effects of having either power or status, but we propose that power and status interact to affect interpersonal behavior. Based on the notions that a) low-status is threatening and aversive and b) power frees people to act on their internal states and feelings, we hypothesized that power without status fosters demeaning behaviors toward others. To test this idea, we orthogonally manipulated both power and status and gave participants the chance to select activities for their partners to perform. As predicted, individuals in high-power/low-status roles chose more demeaning activities for their partners (e.g., bark like a dog, say "I am filthy") than did those in any other combination of power and status roles. We discuss how these results clarify, challenge, and advance the existing power and status literatures.

Dear colleagues,

I recall reading a summary of a paper in which the authors examined how the interaction between power and status influenced control over others.

Based on my recollection, they found that individuals in the low status/high power condition, exerted more arbitrary control over others (e.g., making them complete more tasks).

I thought Adam Galinsky was one of the authors, but I can't find it searching for these terms and his name.

If you happen to know this paper, please send me the citation.

Best,

Jason Pierce

Jason R. Pierce

Assistant Professor

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

http://mypage.iu.edu/~jrpierce/

jason.pierce@uai.cl