Week 5

week 5 is about the power paradox and how to overcome power’s effects

The believe that one can determines one’s own internal states of behavior, influence one’s environment and/ or bring about desired outcomes

Central Motivator of peoples decision making and behavior.

Individuals are highly motivated to believe they have control over their lives.

Powerlessness threatens fundamental needs of authonomy and self control, which are crucial for promoting subjective well being

with great power comes great responibility

• greater advice taking from experts advisors and subordinates alike

• greater stress response

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Communually oriented people:

• focused on responding to the needs and interests of others, regardless of how much they might gain from it

• respond in socially responsible ways

• Prosocial (Prosoziales Verhalten bezeichnet in der Sozialpsychologie eine freiwillige Handlung, in der Menschen die Intention verfolgen, anderen Personen Nutzen zu bringen, oftmals ohne dass es dabei um die eigenen Interessen geht.)

Exchange oriented people:

• expect to receive, then they give

• keep a “tally” of the giving and the receiving benefits within their relationships

• act in terms of their self-interests

• Egocentric

in collective cultures, people tend to construe the self in more interrelated and interdependent ways and place an emphasis on attending to others, fitting in, and in harmonious interdependence

In american culture, people seek to maintain their interdependence from others by attending to the self and by discovering and expressing their unique attributes

• focus on the team ( we versus I)

writing in the style of others, thinking of how you need the others to achieve your goals

• make hierarchies unstable

focus switches from gains to losses, poeple do not want to loose their power

• Power Paradox = “We rise in power and make a difference in the world due to what is best about human nature, but we fall from power due to what is worst (Dacher Keltner)” -> People get to power positions for their good behavior, yet power itself tends to lead to undesirable behavior which leads to losing the power position