MGMT1135 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Cognition
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Elevated power will be associated with the increased experience and expression of positive mood. Research on college students showed that dormitory members in powerful positions reported elevated baseline positive mood (anderson, langner, & Those who reported to be dominant, assertive, and/or occupy any leadership role also reported experience of elevated positive mood. Power seems to have a positive impact on your mood & affect! Elevated power increases the sensitivity to rewards: powerful people quicker to detect opportunities for material rewards; see other as a mean to own ends. Reduced power increases the sensitivity to threat and punishment: People less power more likely to interpret ambiguous events as more threatening; see self as a means to others" ends. Powerful people are quicker to detect opportunities. For material, social rewards and conditioned stimuli. Power and tendency to construe others through a lens of. High power individuals will be more prone to. Less likely to attend to individuating information in.
