Fast, Nathanael J.; Gruenfeld, Deborah H.; Sivanathan, Niro - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - 2008
Three experiments demonstrated that the experience of power leads to an illusion of personal control. Regardless of whether power was experientially primed (Experiments 1 and 3) or manipulated through manager-subordinate roles (Experiment 2), it led to perceived control over outcomes that were...