Sexual aggression when power is new
Effects of acute high power on chronically low-power individuals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6205864 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melissa J Williams (0000-0001-5031-0312, Emory University), Deborah H Gruenfeld (Stanford University), Lucia E Guillory, Lucia Guillory (Stanford University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201-223 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspi0000068 |
| PMID | 27399252 |
| OpenAlex | W2472432418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 95 |
Previous theorists have characterized sexually aggressive behavior as an expression of power, yet evidence that power causes sexual aggression is mixed. We hypothesize that power can indeed create opportunities for sexual aggression-but that it is those who chronically experience low power who will choose to exploit such opportunities. Here, low-power men placed in a high-power role showed the most hostility in response to a denied opportunity with an attractive woman (Studies 1 and 2). Chronically low-power men and women given acute power were the most likely to say they would inappropriately pursue an unrequited workplace attraction (Studies 3 and 4). Finally, having power over an attractive woman increased harassment behavior among men with chronic low, but not high, power (Study 5). People who see themselves as chronically denied power appear to have a stronger desire to feel powerful and are more likely to use sexual aggression toward that end. (PsycINFO Database Record
Aggression · Developmental psychology · Harassment · Hostility · MEDLINE · Power (physics) · PsycINFO · Clinical Psychology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Sex-Based Harassment Inventory
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How prosocial actors use power hierarchies to build moral reputation
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The desire for power and romantic commitment in LGBTQ relationships
Bringing aggression back into the study of sexual violence
Against our will
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Power and Perspectives Not Taken
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Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception
Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression
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Power, Distress, and Compassion
When the Boss Feels Inadequate
Religious Belief as Compensatory Control
Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Aggression
The Social Distance Theory of Power
The Good Life of the Powerful
Sexual harassment of working women
Power reduces the press of the situation
A Matter of Vertical Position
Who Believes in a Just World
Characteristics of aggressors against women
The incidence and dimensions of sexual harassment in academia and the workplace
Power and Goal Pursuit
Men Who Rape
Measuring Sexual Harassment
The Two Faces of Adam
The Personal Sense of Power
Responsibility and the power motive in women and men
Reconsideration of a measure of power motivation
Aggressive conduct disorder
Sexual coercion context and psychosocial correlates among diverse males
Psychological predictors of sexual harassment
It's Not Just Being Popular, it's Knowing it, too
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A Refined Computer Harassment Paradigm
The Sexual Harassment of Men
Power, Objectification, and Recognition of Sexualized Women and Men
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Studying Sexual Harassment in the Laboratory
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Sexual harassment proclivities in men
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The effects of power on prosocial outcomes
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Empirical test of bullies' status goals
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The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory
Relationship orientation as a moderator of the effects of social power
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Women, sex, hostility, power, and suspicion
The attraction of social power
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The powerful disregard social comparison information
The power to be me
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Social power increases implicit prejudice
Power and the objectification of social targets
Attractiveness of the underling
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You focus on the forest when you're in charge of the trees
Threatened egotism, narcissism, self-esteem, and direct and displaced aggression
Ease of retrieval as information
Social power facilitates the effect of prosocial orientation on empathic accuracy
The sex → aggression link
The functional domain specificity of self-esteem and the differential prediction of aggression
Sexual harassment under social identity threat
Sexual overperception
The experience of power
From Power to Action
Of Animals and Objects
An ambivalent alliance
Misanthropy and Political Ideology
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Loneliness and Aggressive Behaviour
Satisfaction with Relationship Power and the Perpetration of Dating Violence
Socioeconomic and Coercive Power Within the Family
Desire to Acquire
| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |