When Shame is Not the Same: Effects of Social Power on Emotionbased Behavior

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When Shame is Not the SameEffects of Social
Power on Emotion-based Behavior

• Anke Goerzig
• Justin Lehmiller
• Ilona de Hooge

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• Emotions have different influences on behavior
  for high-power and low-power groups

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Introduction

• Group-based emotions are
• Experienced by individuals but with respect to
  their social identity as group members.
• Specific emotions ? specific behavior
• What about groups?

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Introduction II

• Superior (anger, disgust) subordinate emotions
  (fear, shame)
• (Niedenthal, Krauth-Gruber, Ric, 2006)
• Both can be experienced by high and low power
  groups
• ? But different behavioral reactions
• (e.g. gender and anger expression, Timmer et
  al., 1998)

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Shame

• On a very important conference, you are
  presenting your most important research youve
  been working on for many years. After the
  presentation, the audience clearly states that
  your research is old news and contains many
  important mistakes.

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Shame

• Immoral act/ imcompetent behavior
• Feel center of attention
• Self experience as weak person
• Action tendency withdrawal
• Association with anger

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Hypotheses
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Experiment

• Manipulation Power
• Enter lab in groups
• Random assigned power groups
• High-power judges
• Low-power workers
• (Guinote et al., 2002, JPSP)
• Power manipulation check

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Experiment

• Manipulation Shame
• Group-performance task
• Feedback (made public)
• Shame condition worst of all groups
• Control condition average of all groups
• (De Hooge et al., 2006)

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Experiment

• Dependent Measures
• Opinion of results challenge results, retest,
  accurate, fair
• Locus of Control of Performance
• Intergroup attitudes
• Dictator Game
• Emotion Manipulation Check

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Discussion Points

• Measurement group-level or individual-level
• Other withdrawal Derogation Measures?
• Power or Status or Majority-Minority