1. In “Power Reduces the Press of the Situation: Implications for Creativity, Conformity, and Dissonance:* Galinsky et al. assert “Power is often defined as asymmetric control over valuable resources and outcomes within a specific situation and set of social relations (Fiske,1993; Fiske & Berdahl, 2007; Keltner et al., 2003; Magee & Galinsky, 2008; Thibaut & Kelley, 1959). This definition of power implicitly involves both control over and independence from others in obtaining important outcomes. As a control mech- anism, power often involves putting pressure on others, driving others to do the things that will help the powerful accomplish their own objectives. Thus, many people have defined power as the capacity to influence others (Copeland, 1994; French & Raven, 1959; Weber, 1947). Power, it could also be said, is the capacity to be uninfluenced by others. Without power, one’s outcomes are constrained by others. With power, one is relatively free of such forces, at least within the context of the specific power relationship. Power has long been suspected of transforming how people live their lives (Kipnis, 1976; Russell,1938), and an exploding body of research has confirmed that power fundamentally alters how an individual construes and approaches the world (Bargh, Raymond, Pryor, & Strack, 1995; Chen, Lee-Chai, & Bargh, 2001; Galinsky et al., 2003; Galinsky, Magee, Inesi, & Gruenfeld, 2006; Gruen- feld, Inesi, Magee, & Galinsky, 2008; Guinote, 2007a, 2007b, 2008; Keltner et al., 2003; Magee, Galinsky, & Gruenfeld, 2007; P. K Smith et al., 2008; P. K Smith & Trope, 2006; Weick & Guinote, 2008). This research makes clear that those with power roam in a very different psychological space than those without power.
Consider this statement in relation to The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015). PLEASE INCLUDE A THESIS STATEMENT. 1. What was this experiment about?
-Is this research about institutions? Power? -Is it about the power of institutions to shape behavior, and how people are shaped by those preexisting expectations? -Is this research about how people, when given too much power, abuse power and authority? -Does power amplify the person? Or does the institution? How is power demonstrated in this film? How does power transform individuals? What are the implications of this demonstration of power? Is it possible to eliminate asymmetrical power relations in research? If so, what approaches would you take to eliminate the disparity in your research?
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