- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Personality and Social Psychology: Moving Toward a More Perfect Union
- The Intertwined Histories of Personality and Social Psychology
- Perspectives on the Person: Rapid Growth and Opportunities for Integration
- Perspectives on the Situation
- Neuroscience Approaches in Social and Personality Psychology
- Evolutionary Perspectives
- Context in Person, Person in Context: A Cultural Psychology Approach to Social–Personality Psychology
- Behavior and Behavior Assessment
- Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Dyadic Data
- Multilevel Modeling in Personality and Social Psychology
- The Self: Dynamics of Persons and Their Situations
- Identity: Personal AND Social
- Morality
- Motivation and Goal Pursuit: Integration Across the Social/Personality Divide
- Five Questions About Emotion: Implications for Social–Personality Psychology
- Cybernetic Approaches to Personality and Social Behavior
- Initial Impressions of Others
- Attitudes and Attitude Change: Social and Personality Considerations About Specific and General Patterns of Behavior
- From Help Giving to Helping Relations: Belongingness and Independence in Social Interactions
- Antisocial Behavior in Individuals and Groups: An Empathy-Focused Approach
- Personality and Social Interaction: Interpenetrating Processes
- Attachment Theory Expanded: A Behavioral Systems Approach to Personality and Social Behavior
- Person-by-Situation Perspectives on Close Relationships
- Personality Influences on Group Processes: The Past, Present, and Future
- Intergroup Processes: From Prejudice to Positive Relations Between Groups
- Power as Active Self: From Acquisition to the Expression and Use of Power
- Personality, Social Psychology, and Psychopathology: Reflections on a Lewinian Vision
- Individual and Societal Well-Being
- Multicultural Identity and Experiences: Cultural, Social, and Personality ProcessesVerónica Benet-Martínez
- Personality and Social Contexts as Sources of Change and Continuity Across the Life Span
- The Social Psychology of Personality and Leadership: A Person-in-Situation Perspective
- Work and Organizations: Contextualizing Personality and Social Psychology
- A Person × Intervention Strategy Approach to Understanding Health Behavior
- Forensic Personality and Social Psychology
- The Psychology of Collective Action
- Social Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Personality and Social Psychology
- Personality and Social Psychology: The Evolving State of the Union
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Philosophers, scientists, policymakers, and the public have questioned about who ascends to power and how power affects the person. This chapter reviews and discusses social–cognitive literature from the last decade or so that examines how dispositions and contextual factors affect the emergence of power and how having power affects the links between dispositions and behavior. Following a process-based perspective that contemplates the cognitive strategies of people in power, a model is proposed of power as a magnifier of the active self—that is, the subset of self-knowledge that is active on a moment-to-moment basis. The active self channels attention and action in line with priorities and plays a key role in action facilitation and goal-directed behavior. The active self is responsive to chronic dispositions, emotions, and current states of the person and to inputs from the environment in a flexible manner. Extant research is integrated based on this model.
Keywords: social power, dominance, dispositions, personality, trait–behavior consistency
Ana Guinote, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, England, UK
Serena Chen, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Personality and Social Psychology: Moving Toward a More Perfect Union
- The Intertwined Histories of Personality and Social Psychology
- Perspectives on the Person: Rapid Growth and Opportunities for Integration
- Perspectives on the Situation
- Neuroscience Approaches in Social and Personality Psychology
- Evolutionary Perspectives
- Context in Person, Person in Context: A Cultural Psychology Approach to Social–Personality Psychology
- Behavior and Behavior Assessment
- Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Dyadic Data
- Multilevel Modeling in Personality and Social Psychology
- The Self: Dynamics of Persons and Their Situations
- Identity: Personal AND Social
- Morality
- Motivation and Goal Pursuit: Integration Across the Social/Personality Divide
- Five Questions About Emotion: Implications for Social–Personality Psychology
- Cybernetic Approaches to Personality and Social Behavior
- Initial Impressions of Others
- Attitudes and Attitude Change: Social and Personality Considerations About Specific and General Patterns of Behavior
- From Help Giving to Helping Relations: Belongingness and Independence in Social Interactions
- Antisocial Behavior in Individuals and Groups: An Empathy-Focused Approach
- Personality and Social Interaction: Interpenetrating Processes
- Attachment Theory Expanded: A Behavioral Systems Approach to Personality and Social Behavior
- Person-by-Situation Perspectives on Close Relationships
- Personality Influences on Group Processes: The Past, Present, and Future
- Intergroup Processes: From Prejudice to Positive Relations Between Groups
- Power as Active Self: From Acquisition to the Expression and Use of Power
- Personality, Social Psychology, and Psychopathology: Reflections on a Lewinian Vision
- Individual and Societal Well-Being
- Multicultural Identity and Experiences: Cultural, Social, and Personality ProcessesVerónica Benet-Martínez
- Personality and Social Contexts as Sources of Change and Continuity Across the Life Span
- The Social Psychology of Personality and Leadership: A Person-in-Situation Perspective
- Work and Organizations: Contextualizing Personality and Social Psychology
- A Person × Intervention Strategy Approach to Understanding Health Behavior
- Forensic Personality and Social Psychology
- The Psychology of Collective Action
- Social Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Personality and Social Psychology
- Personality and Social Psychology: The Evolving State of the Union
- Index
