TITLE:
The Effects of Power and Social Norms on Power Decision Making
AUTHORS:
Xinyue Huang, Pinyu Meng, Chen Chen
KEYWORDS:
Power, Social Norms, Decision Making Behavior, Game Experiment, Force, Legitimacy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
13,
2020
ABSTRACT: Power, as an important and long-term research topic of politics field,
has attracted extensive attention. In recent years, power has become a hot
research field of social psychology. Power as a kind of psychological
variables, affects the individual’s cognition, emotion and behavior. At present, the
opinion that power affects individual decisions, attracts more and more attention of researchers. Among many factors that affect
the individual’s decision behavior, social environment and group’s role cannot
be ignored. The research takes the game
experiment to study decision, form the sense of social norms and power, recruiting
124 students in University, starting high level and low level of power
respectively, then displaying descriptive social norms. Next, game experiment
begins, observing differences between subjects facing different forms of power
in the course of the game to make choices and decisions. The
results show that the sense of power level and social norms influence power
decision-making behavior. The sense of power has a significant influence on the
acquisition of the blue symbol (legitimacy) and the
acquisition and use of the red symbol (force) (p ve a
significant influence on the acquisition of the red symbol (force) and the
acquisition and use of the blue symbol (legitimacy) (p p