Publication Cover
International Journal of Social Psychology
Revista de Psicología Social
Volume 27, 2012 - Issue 3
176
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

The effects of social power and disparagement humor on the evaluations of subordinates

Efectos del poder social y el humor de denigración en la evaluación de los subordinados

, &
Pages 323-337 | Received 30 Aug 2011, Accepted 20 Jan 2012, Published online: 23 Jan 2014

References

  • Carretero-Dios, H., Pérez, C. & Buela-Casal, G. (2009). Content validity and metric properties of a pool of items developed to assess humor appreciation. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 12, 773–787.
  • Carretero-Dios, H., Pérez, C. & Buela-Casal, G. (2010). Assessing the appreciation of the content and structure of humor: Construction of a new scale. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 23, 307–325.
  • Chen, S., Lee-Chai, A. Y. & Bargh, J. A. (2001). Relationship orientation as a moderator of the effects of social power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 173–187.
  • Crandall, C. S. & Eshleman, A. (2003). A justification-suppression of the expression and experience of prejudice. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 414–446.
  • Esses, V. M. & Zanna, M. P. (1995). Mood and the expression of ethnic stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 1052–1068.
  • Ferguson, M. A. & Ford, T. E. (2008). Disparagement humor: A theoretical and empirical review of psychoanalytic, superiority, and social identity theories. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 21, 283–312.
  • Fiske, S. T. (1993). Controlling other people: The impact of power on stereotyping. American Psychologist, 48, 621–628.
  • Ford, T. E. (2000). Effects of sexist humor on tolerance of sexist events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1094–1107.
  • Ford, T. E., Boxer, C. F., Armstrong, J. & Edel, J. R. (2008). More than “just a joke”: The prejudice-releasing function of sexist humor. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 159–170.
  • Ford, T. E. & Ferguson, M. A. (2004). Social consequences of disparagement humor: A prejudiced norm theory. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 79–94.
  • Ford, T. E., Wentzel, E. R. & Lorion, J. (2001). Effects of exposure to sexist humor on perceptions of normative tolerance of sexism. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 677–691.
  • Georgesen, J. C. & Harris, M. J. (2000). The balance of power: Interpersonal consequences of differential power and expectancies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1239–1257.
  • Goodwin, S. A., Gubin, A., Fiske, S. T. & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (2000). Power biases impression formation: Stereotyping subordinates by default, by design. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 3, 227–256.
  • Guinote, A. (2007a). Power and goal pursuit. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1076–1087.
  • Guinote, A. (2007b). Power and the suppression of unwanted thoughts: Does control over others decrease control over the self? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 433–440.
  • Guinote, A., Willis, G. B. & Martellota, C. (2010). Social power increases implicit prejudice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 299–307.
  • Hodson, G., Macinnis, C. C. & Rush, J. (2010). Prejudice-relevant correlates of humor temperaments and humor styles. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 546–549.
  • Husband, C. (1977). The mass media and the functions of ethnic humor in a racist society. In A. J. Chapman & H. C. Foot (Eds.), It's a funny thing, humor (pp. 267–272). Elmsford, NY: Pergamon.
  • Keltner, D., Gruenfeld, D. H. & Anderson, C. (2003). Power, approach, and inhibition. Psychological Review, 110, 265–284.
  • Kipnis, D. (1976). The power-holders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • La Fave, L. & Mannell, R. (1976). Does ethnic humor serve prejudice? Journal of Communication, 26, 116–123.
  • Lammers, J. & Stapel, D. A. (2011). Power increases dehumanization. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 14, 113–126.
  • Mcghee, P. E., Ruch, W. & Hehl, F. J. (1990). A personality-based model of humor development during adulthood. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 3, 119–146.
  • Nardi, P. M. & Stoller, N. E. (2008). “Fruits,” “fags,” and “dykes”: The portrayal of gay/lesbian identity in “nance” jokes of the'50s and ‘60s. Journal of Homosexuality, 55, 388–410.
  • Overbeck, J. R. & Park, B. (2001). When power does not corrupt: Superior individuation processes among powerful perceivers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 549–565.
  • Overbeck, J. R. & Park, B. (2006). Powerful perceivers, powerless objects: Flexibility of powerholders' social attention. Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, 99, 227–243.
  • Richeson, J. A. & Ambady, N. (2003). Effects of situational power on automatic racial prejudice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 177–183.
  • Rodríguez-bailón, R., Moya, M. & Yzerbyt, V. (2000). Why do superiors attend to negative stereotypic information about their subordinates? Effects of power legitimacy on social perception. European Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 651–671.
  • Romero-Sánchez, M., Durán, M., Carretero-Dios, H., Megías, J. L. & Moya, M. (2010). Exposure to sexist humor and rape proclivity: The moderator effect of aversiveness ratings. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25, 2339–2350.
  • Ruch, W. (2001). The perception of humor. In A. W. Kaszniak (Ed.), Emotion, qualia, and consciousness (pp. 410–425). Tokyo: Word Scientific Publisher.
  • Russell, A. M., & Fiske, S. T. (2010). Power and social perception. In A. Guinote & T. K. Vescio (Eds.), The social psychology of power (pp. 231–250). New York: Guilford Press.
  • Sever, A. & Ungar, S. (1997). No laughing matter: Boundaries of gender-based humour in the classroom. Journal of Higher Education, 68, 87–105.
  • Sidanius, J. & Pratto, F. (1999). Social dominance. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., Van Laar, C. & Levin, S. (2004). Social dominance theory: Its agenda and method. Political Psychology, 25, 845–880.
  • Tajfel, H. & Turner, J. C. (1979). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict. In W. G. Austin, & S. Worchel (Eds.), The social psychology of intergroup relations (pp. 33–47). Monterey, CA: Brooks-Cole.
  • Viki, G. T., Thomae, M., Cullen, A. & Fernández, H. (2007). The effect of sexist humor and type of rape on men's self-reported rape proclivity and victim blame. Current Research in Social Psychology, 13, 122–132.
  • Weick, M. & Guinote, A. (2008). When subjective experiences matter: Power increases reliance on the ease of retrieval. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 956–970.
  • White, R. W. (1959). Motivation reconsidered: The concept of competence. Psychological Review, 66, 297–333.
  • Willis, G. B. & Guinote, A. (2011). The effects of social power on goal content and goal Striving: A situated perspective. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5, 706–719.
  • Willis, G. B. & Rodríguez-bailón, R. (2010). Psicología social experimental del poder: consecuencias cognitivas, emocionales y comportamentales [The experimental social psychology of power: Cognitive, emotional, and behavioural consequences]. Estudios de Psicología, 31, 279–295.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.