Journal article
How Do the Powerful Attain Status? The Roots of Legitimate Power Inequalities
Managerial and decision economics, Vol.33(5-6), pp.355-367
07/01/2012
DOI: 10.1002/mde.2554
Abstract
Power inequalities are coercive, based on relative control over resources, whereas status hierarchies are based on collectively endorsed conceptions of merit. How then do the powerful achieve status? We argue that using power for personal gain can lead to perceptions of the powerful as competent-enhancing status-but also selfish-diminishing status. Consequently, power users will be most likely to attain status when they successfully avoid perceptions of selfishness. Two experiments support this view, finding that power users achieve greater status when moderating their power use, forgoing maximal profits in exchange, or using philanthropic gestures to counteract perceptions of greed. Copyright (C) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How Do the Powerful Attain Status? The Roots of Legitimate Power Inequalities
- Creators
- Robb Willer - University of California, BerkeleyReef Youngreen - University of Massachusetts BostonLisa Troyer - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMichael J. Lovaglia - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Managerial and decision economics, Vol.33(5-6), pp.355-367
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1002/mde.2554
- ISSN
- 0143-6570
- eISSN
- 1099-1468
- Number of pages
- 13
- Grant note
- Department of Education; US Department of Education SES-0096481 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306240002771
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