Is Power Adaptive Or Maladaptive

Question 1

What is the incentive of n achievement

Answer 1

Mastery ; people who are high on achievement have a preference for experiences of doing well and being successful

Question 2

What is the incentive of n power ?

Answer 2

Impact ; n power is the recurrent preference for experiences of having impact on others

Question 3

Natural incentive of N intimacy ?

Answer 3

A recurrent preference for experiences of warm, close, and communicative interactions with others

Question 4

Why are the big three motives interesting to study?

Answer 4

Because they have been linked to the different kinds of careers we may be drawn to and do well in
Lots of research has been done in the 50s 60s and 70s and they used Klimt term longitudinal studies where they were trying to see if your motives as a 20 years old would predict how far you’d go in a large corporation for example.

Question 5

Achievement has been associated with what occupations ?

Answer 5

Salesperson, a researcher, small business owner

Question 6

Power motivation is associated with what occupations ?

Answer 6

Manager, Rabi, clergy, not much evidence but it also has been associated with being a teacher , therapist, journalist

Question 7

Correlates of n power? (Positives)

Answer 7

• Clear evidence if you are high in power you will get involved in volunteering in organizations
• efforts to make community contributions
• effective leadership
• acquisition of prestige symbols

Question 8

Correlates n power? Negatives

Answer 8

• Aggression both physically and verbally , these men tend to have more domestic problems, also evidence that they are more exploitative interpersonal relations
  More excessive drinkers
  Marriages to end in divorce
  Aggressive in sexuality

Question 9

Socialized power

Answer 9

To benefit others

Question 10

Unsocialized and uncontrolled form of power ?

Answer 10

About personal power, here people are trying to get impact and influence to benefit the self

Question 11

Power motivation add ons by prof , power can be valuable

Answer 11

Is a valuable thing, but only a certain kind of motivation that is valuable
Someone that is high in power motivation can make a huge difference for everyone in the community.
Example a mother high in power might get more involved in a child school and work to make the things better for all the kids there

Keep in mind this is the positive and socialized version of n power

Question 12

Moderators of power motivation ?

Answer 12

Gender, social class, activity inhibition

Question 13

Gender as a moderator of power motivation?

Answer 13

The negatives we saw earlier are only showing on the men side, power motivation seems more problematic among men but not so much among women

When men get the same responsibility training as women they have no negative correlates
David winter did the responsibility training research

In the sixties and seventies the female children would do lots of caretaking and babysitting and lots of things to help the moms around the house while boys didn’t do much

He hypothesized maybe it’s not the gender affecting this but the responsibility training

Question 14

Peter Parker

Answer 14

Achievement motivated and then gets bitten by spider becomes power oriented
It is very important in order to have power to be responsibility oriented too

Question 15

Social class as a second moderator of power motivation

Answer 15

Low SES men have more correlates with negative outcomes of n power, fight or flight constantly activated and over time affect the brain development most specifically self control

If you grew up in poor areas you have been daily with so much daily stress, that your fight or flight is activated all the time

Limits your Brian development, that is involved in planning and self control

Question 16

Activity inhibition as a moderator of power motivation ?

Answer 16

Lots of the stories about the pictures have suggested inhibition
They developed a simple coding system , easiest to use, which measures how many times you use the word not, the negative in your stories

• Across a 1000 words some people will use the word not 20 times whereas others might use it zero times
• This may reflect our natural implicit tendency to inhibit our actions
• May have something to do with self control and might be something that can mitigate the way power motivation is being expressed

If you have a leader it would be very good if they have activity inhibition as well

Conscientiousness is related to these moderators

Question 17

Conscientiousness as a moderator n power

Answer 17

As a moderator might be good or bad in n power , in order to know a person has a tendency for good or evil is if they have high power and no conscientiousness

Question 18

Predicting managerial success the leadership motive profile (LMP)

Answer 18

Some managers are better than others so they came up with LMP, there are three things to look for which are associated with successful positive management :
McLean would say it is hard to inspire others and impact them if you don’t have the power motive. And if you have relatively High need for affiliation as a manager you can’t be worrying about whether likes you or not

High n power
Low n affiliation
High activity inhibition (high self control)

Studies only with men followed them for 25 years did this in the Us navy :
24 different level to go up the lather in navy
20 levels of leadership
Had people write imaginative stories
Coded their stories for the LMP profile and they tracked them overtime
They found that they could predict who was going to move up the ladder and who was not

Climbing the ladder in large organizations

Question 19

Affiliation is different from intimacy

Answer 19

The need for intimacy is more about being preoccupied with others liking you and worrying and caring about their opinions about you and try to manage that and maintain your relationship

Question 20

Did Obama had this LMP profile

Answer 20

• David winter stated that the scoring system could code for speech up you could know if someone was high on a motive just by hearing them talk
• Developed a new system that allows you to listen to someone speak and code for their motives

David winter very significant in political psychology
By coding inaugural speeches he is able to predict who is going to be a more or less successful president

Question 21

brief scoring definitions of power imagery

Answer 21

Encode speeches for the king of imagery and how they are developed
There re the things that are coded for power motivation : strong vigorous actions that have an impact on others, convincing or persuading arousing strong feelings, really concerned about reputation or prestige

Coded all speeches of Obama and did a imagery of all three motives
- he is highest in power motivation
Donald trump is even higher than Obama
- achievement relatively low on most of his speeches

Donald trump is also high on achievement

Question 22

Predicting presidential outcomes

Answer 22

Political scientists rank all presidents , Abraham and Franklin Roosevelt were are US greatest presidents of all time, but who they find rated greatness correlates with power motivation

Trump kicked everyone in administration , he is very impulsive and does what he is told not to do, not the greatest based on this even though he had high power motivation the only dif is self control and conscientiousness LEVELS

ACHIEVEMENT AMD HIHG POWER WITH NO SELF CONTROL IT CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS

Question 23

Do Obama traits support his motives ?

Answer 23

High on social dominance , but not so on social vitality
High on conscientiousness and self control high power motivation

Question 24

High power motive in women in particular

Answer 24

Should lead to socialize power
Extraversion in women it was good for them in their career
But low on e didn’t help in career impact even though women was high in power

Question 25

Would this person be a successful president ?

Answer 25

N power
N affiliation
N achievement
Lacks self control
High extraversion extremely low agreeableness
Other factors
Narcissism and authoritarian

Hell no

Question 26

How do motives and traits interacts ?

Answer 26

Low extraversion can inhibit expressing a motive throughout your life, some people were saying this is what happened with Obama , wrong and unfair, racism

Question 27

Women have a problem with social dominance

Answer 27

Explicit sexism if a woman says something that’s assertive, it’s seen as nagging