Relationships - Different Ways of Relating to Others

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Two types of relationships

  • Communal relationship
  • Exchange relationship

Power and hierarchical relationships

What is power?

  • Power: the ability to control our own outcomes and those of others; the freedom to act
  • Status: the outcome of an evaluation of attributes that produces differences in respect and prominence, which in part determines an individual's power within a group
  • Authority: power that derives from institutionalized roles or arrangements.
  • Dominance: Behavior that has the acquisition or demonstration of power as it's goal.

Where does it come from?

  • Authority
  • Expertise
  • Coercion
  • Rewards

Approach/inhibition theory

A theory that states that higher-power individuals are inclined to go after their goals and make quick judgments, whereas low-power individuals are more likely to constrain their behavior and attend to others carefully.

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