title: Flipping the switch: power, social dominance, and expectancies of mental energy change.
abstract: Research suggests that high levels of interpersonal power can promote enhanced executive functioning capabilities. The present work explored whether this effect is contingent upon expectancies concerning power's downstream cognitive consequences. Study 1 showed that social dominance orientation (SDO) predicted idiosyncratic expectancies of mental energy change toward interpersonal power. Study 2 showed that SDO moderated the executive functioning changes associated with interpersonal power and that this moderation effect was contingent upon changes in perceived mental depletion. Study 3 showed that directly manipulating expectancies of mental energy change concerning interpersonal power moderated the executive functioning consequences of power and that this moderation effect was contingent upon SDO and changes in perceived mental depletion. Together, the present findings underscore the importance of expectancies and individual differences in understanding the effects of interpersonal power.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington, USA pmegan@indiana.edu.
authors.forename: Patrick M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Egan
authors.affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
authors.forename: Edward R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Hirt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012649:Self Concept; D012930:Social Dominance; D057190:Stroop Test; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: executive functioning; expectancies; individual differences; power; self-regulation; social dominance orientation