Week 4 - Lecture 1 - Vertical Relationships: Power, and Leadership Status

Question 1

What is the general social hierarchy definition?

Answer 1

Hierarchy is one of those recipes for living that have been evolved, tested and winnowed through hundreds of generations of human social history

Question 2

What is social hierarchy in social psychology defined (Magee & Galinsky, 2008)?

Answer 2

Social hierarchy is an implicit or explicit rank order of individuals or groups with respect to a valued social dimension

Question 3

The social psychology of hierarchies distinguishes what?

Answer 3

Power, status and leadership?

Question 4

What is social power?

Answer 4

Asymmetric control over valued resources

Question 5

What is power status?

Answer 5

Administration/respect in the eyes of others

Question 6

What is power leadership?

Answer 6

Social influence to achieve shared goals

Question 7

With clear rank differences in groups we get what?

Answer 7

Better coordination and less conflict in our group

Question 8

Knowing who is high in a group helps us what?

Answer 8

Know when and where to move

Question 9

Why is having a clear hierarchical structure in groups good?

Answer 9

Reduces conflict in our teams so we can do better - increases team performance

Question 10

What happens when there isn’t an hierarchy in a group?

Answer 10

Group performance suffers - we do worse as a team

Question 11

At individual level, why is higher rank desirable?

Answer 11

• Access to mates, valued resources, respect and admiration
• Less stress and better health outcomes