PSYB10H3 Lecture 17: Lecture 17 II
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Maintaining hierarchy: how do we maintain hierarchy, how social power affects social cognition, you"re given power & status by the social world. Power changes the way someone construes & approaches the world. This is a recipricol processes because u receive status and power from others but then this also changes u and how u interact with others, thus affecting social cognition: effects of power on psychological processess. Looking back at emotions; it"s either an approach oriented state or an avoidance-oriented state (related to bas behavioural approach and bis- behaviour inhibition) Power affects relative activation of neurobiological systems of bas and bis. So high power is an approach orientated motivation and you approach attractive aspects of a situation. So if you"re high in power and you have a situation, you will focus on rewards. Therefore, you want to achieve that reward: however, low power is the activation of bis; they focus in threat and punishment.
