Power and Categorization: Power Increases the Number and Abstractness of Categories Academic Article

abstract

• Across three experiments, participants formed a larger number of categories when in a state of high, compared to low, psychological power. Moreover, in contrast to prior categorization research, which suggests forming more categories is tantamount to reduced breadth of categorization, high-power participants also formed a larger number of superordinate (i.e., more abstract) categories than low-power participants. The present findings enhance the understanding of power in relation to categorization and simultaneously highlight the distinction between number and abstraction as fundamental aspects of categorization.

authors

• Smallman, Rachel

published proceedings

• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE

altmetric score

• 1.5

author list (cited authors)

• Smith, P. K., Smallman, R., & Rucker, D. D.

citation count

• 8

complete list of authors

• Smith, Pamela K||Smallman, Rachel||Rucker, Derek D

publication date

• April 2016

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Social Psychological and Personality Science  Journal

keywords

• Abstraction
• Breadth Of Categorization
• Power

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/1948550615619760

start page

• 281

end page

• 289

volume

• 7

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1177%2F1948550615619760