Titre
Inferring power-relevant thoughts and feelings in others: A signal detection analysis
Type
article
Institution
Externe
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Schmid Mast, M.
Auteure/Auteur
Hall, J. A.
Auteure/Auteur
Ickes, W.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
ISSN
0046-2772
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2006-06
Volume
36
Numéro
4
Première page
469
Dernière page/numéro d’article
478
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
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.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_B5EC75275DE2
Date de création
2014-11-25T10:57:10.431Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-21T04:27:06Z