TITLE:
The Influence of Power Sense on Cooperation: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Control and the Moderating Effect of Dominance Motivation
AUTHORS:
Chi Yang, Yaozhong Liu, Haijin Chen
KEYWORDS:
Power Sense, Dominance Motivation, Perceived Control, Cooperation
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.9 No.5,
May
25,
2018
ABSTRACT: Cooperation runs through all aspects of our work, study and life and it is an important driving force for the development of our society. This article focuses on the influence of power sense on cooperation and tries to explore the inherent mechanism. We used questionnaire and laboratory experiment to explore the influence of power sense on cooperation and its psychological mechanism. There are three studies in this article, the results of our studies proved that: 1) The individual’s power sense is positively correlated with the tendency of cooperation; 2) power sense positively affects cooperation; 3) perceived control of individual plays an intermediary role between power and cooperation; 4) dominance motivation can effectively alleviate the effect of power sense on perceived control.