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The power of status: What determines one's reactions to anger in a social situation?
- Source :
- Personality and Individual Differences. 114:61-68
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- The present study examined how social status and gender determine anger expression and behavioral reactions toward experienced anger. In two experiments, anger was induced in a staged social interaction. Behavioral anger reactions were judged by observers. In Experiment 1 ( equal status condition ; N = 110) participants were provoked by a confederate, in Experiment 2 ( low status condition ; N = 116) participants were provoked by the experimenter. We found that participants expressed their anger to a lesser extent, were less resistant, and engaged in submissive behaviors if they had a lower status than the anger-target. As expected, gender had a moderating effect: While women's anger reactions were affected by having a lower status than the anger-target, men's anger reactions were affected by low status only when interacting with a female anger-target. Our findings provide new evidence regarding behavioral reactions to anger.
- Subjects :
- media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Human factors and ergonomics
Poison control
050109 social psychology
Anger
behavioral disciplines and activities
Suicide prevention
050105 experimental psychology
Occupational safety and health
Social relation
Developmental psychology
mental disorders
Injury prevention
behavior and behavior mechanisms
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychology
psychological phenomena and processes
General Psychology
Clinical psychology
Social status
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Details
- ISSN :
- 01918869
- Volume :
- 114
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6da072d87a4af24c913e879b621ee34e