在亲密关系中对权力的偏见:自我保护,亲关系和权力动机的作用
Robert Körner1, Nickola C Overall2
1University of Bamberg, Germany.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
|January 27, 2026
概括
人们往往低估了他们的关系力量,影响了他们的幸福感和目标实现. 这种偏见受到自我保护,权力和关系动机的影响,影响社会动态.
科学领域:
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 关系科学科学 关系科学
- 行为经济学是一种行为经济学.
背景情况:
- 感知到的无能为力会对幸福,追求目标产生负面影响,并可能导致攻击性.
- 个人可能会低估他们在社交互动中的实际力量,从而导致低于最佳的结果.
- 错误管理理论表明,偏见可能服务于适应性功能,但它们在权力感知中的作用尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 调查个人是否在各种关系环境中系统地低估了自己的力量.
- 检查自我保护,权力和亲关系动机对权力低估偏见的影响.
主要方法:
- 在四个样本中使用了真相和偏见模型 (友,同性伴侣,男女伴侣;N = 1,304个二元组).
- 评估了个体感知到的权力与朋友/伴侣对其权力的报道之间的差异.
- 衡量自我保护动机 (例如,依恋焦虑),权力动机 (例如,对权力的渴望) 和亲关系动机 (例如,承诺).
主要成果:
- 发现了强有力的证据,表明个人始终低估了他们在人际关系中的力量.
- 更高的自我保护和权力动机与更大的低估偏见有关.
- 更高的承诺 (亲关系动机) 与较低的权力低估偏差有关.
结论:
- 个人表现出一种系统的偏见,低估了他们在人际关系中的权力.
- 激励因素,包括自我保护,权力欲望和承诺,显著塑造了这种权力感知偏见.
- 了解这些偏见对于解释权力相关行为和改善关系结果至关重要.
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