Behavioral adaptability is the ability to adapt one's interpersonal behavior to the expectations of the social interaction partners. In this paper, we investigated two factors that impact the extent to which people express behavioral adaptability. First, we investigated whether behavioral adaptability depends on the interaction partners' social categories (in-group vs. out-group). Second, we tested whether social dominance orientation (SDO) is related to behavioral adaptability and whether this relationship depends on the interaction partners' belonging to the in- or out-group. To do so, we conducted 2 studies in which we manipulated whether the interaction partners belong to the in- or to the out-group and in which we assessed participants SDO. In both studies, participants were in the role of a leader who had to give separate pep talks to 2 subordinates who differed in terms of preferred leadership style and we operationalized behavioral adaptability by coding to what extent participants adapted (Study 1) or reported that they would adapt (Study 2) their leadership style according to their subordinates' individual preferences. Study 1 used immersive virtual reality and included White/Caucasian male participants (N = 173). Study 2 was a vignette study including men and women who were either White/Caucasian or Black/African American (N = 741). Results showed that the subordinates' social category did not impact the extent to which participants express behavioral adaptability. However, SDO was differently related to behavioral adaptability depending both on participants social categories (e.g., ethnicity and sex) and subordinates' belonging to the in- or out-group. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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社会分类和社会支配取向在行为适应性中的作用。

行为适应性是指使人的人际行为适应社会交往伙伴的期望的能力。在本文中，我们调查了影响人们表达行为适应性程度的两个因素。首先，我们调查了行为适应性是否取决于互动伙伴的社会类别（组内与组外）。其次，我们测试了社会优势取向（SDO）是否与行为适应性有关，以及这种关系是否取决于互动伙伴属于内群体或外群体。为此，我们进行了 2 项研究，其中我们操纵了互动伙伴是属于内组还是外组，并在其中评估了参与者的 SDO。在这两项研究中，参与者扮演领导者的角色，他们必须对 2 个在首选领导风格方面不同的下属进行单独的鼓励谈话，我们通过编码参与者适应的程度（研究 1）或报告他们会适应的程度（研究2) 根据下属的个人喜好，他们的领导风格。研究 1 使用沉浸式虚拟现实，包括白人/高加索男性参与者 (N = 173)。研究 2 是一项小插曲研究，包括白人/高加索人或黑人/非裔美国人 (N = 741) 的男性和女性。结果表明，下属的社会类别不影响参与者表达行为适应性的程度。然而，SDO 与行为适应性的相关性不同，这取决于参与者的社会类别（例如，种族和性别）和下属属于内组或外组。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。