Four studies tested the overriding hypothesis that an actor's high relative to low social power enhances the actor's expectations of social acceptance, and attenuates his or her concerns about social rejection, from others. Study 1 yielded correlational support for this hypothesis, while Studies 2 and 3 produced causal evidence. Study 3 also suggested that actor-power effects on acceptance expectations and rejection concerns emerge in relation to both opposite-power counterparts and others in general, though the effects tend to be stronger for the former. Finally, Study 4 confirmed that our effects are driven at least partly by an actor's power, though at times in interaction with the high or low power of potential sources of acceptance/ rejection. The present studies extend a growing literature on power's effects on processes and phenomena related to social acceptance and rejection. We discuss limitations, implications, and future directions.

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他们爱我，爱我不？：社会力量塑造了接受的期望和对拒绝的担忧

四项研究检验了一个最重要的假设，即一个演员相对于较低的社会权力而言较高，可以提高该演员对社会认可的期望，并减轻了他或她对他人的社会排斥的担忧。研究1对此假设提供了相关支持，而研究2和3则提供了因果证据。研究3还表明，相对于相反权力的对手和其他人，行为者权力对接受期望和拒绝关注的影响会出现，尽管前者的影响倾向于更大。最后，研究4证实我们的效果至少部分地由演员的力量驱动，尽管有时与潜在的接受/拒绝来源的力量高或低相互作用。本研究扩展了关于权力的不断增长的文献。对与社会接受和拒绝有关的过程和现象的影响。我们讨论了局限性，影响和未来方向。