ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention

How to Harness Your Escalating Power? Men and Women Need Different Mindsets

Virtual

Oral · Industrial/Organizational Psychology

A power-prime experiment and a survey on managers consistently show that, the power-is-controlling mindset is poisonous to male leaders, and the power-is-depending mindset can help them to deal with the dark side of power. Interestingly, we find that the power-is-controlling mindset empower female leaders to be more caring to others.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Fei XieSpeaker
    Fei Xie
  • Xiao FuDiscussant
    Capital Normal University
  • Niping WuDiscussant
    Individual Researcher
  • Pufan HuangDiscussant
    Columbia University