High in the Hierarchy: How Vertical Location and Judgments of Leaders' Power are Interrelated

By S. Giessner, Thomas W. Schubert. 2007

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Abstract concepts: sensory-motor grounding, metaphors, and beyond (2011, result): “Comparable results were found by Giessner and Schubert (2007), who investigated the relation between the up–down image schema and power.”
A metaphor-enriched social cognition. (2010, background): “Extending these findings to perceptions of leaders' power, Giessner and Schubert (2007) found that increasing the vertical, but not the horizontal, distance between pictorial representations of a manager and subordinates led participants to view the leader as more powerful.”
Phonetics and politeness: Perceiving Korean honorific and non-honorific speech through phonetic cues (2014, background): “These keys were selected due to the metaphorical relationship between 209 verticality and power (Schubert, 2005; Giessner and Schubert, 2007).”
Tall claims?: Sense and nonsense about the importance of height of US presidents (2013, methodology): “For example, we automatically interpret words like “up”, “above” and “large” with authority, dominance, and power (Giessner & Schubert, 2007; Schubert, 2005), whereas words like “down”, “below” and “small” are associated with subordinance, submission, and powerlessness.”
The height leadership advantage in men and women: Testing evolutionary psychology predictions about the perceptions of tall leaders (2013, background): “Taking an embodied cognition perspective, Giessner and Schubert (2007) suggested that people hold strong implicit beliefs, articulated in language, about the relationship between height and power (height terms such as up, high, super, top are cognitively associated with power).”
Control over the AssoCiAtion of Power And size (2009, result): “These results are also in line with previous research showing that power includes modal content related to elevation (Giessner & Schubert, 2007; Schubert, 2005; Schubert, Waldzus, & Seibt, 2008).”
The Nonconscious Nature of Power: Cues and Consequences (2010, background): “For example, Giessner and Schubert (2007) had business and economics students form an impression of a manager, who was described in a paragraph accompanied by an organizational chart.”
What Have We Learned That Is Critical in Understanding Leadership Perceptions and Leader-Performance Relations? (2014, background): “Other research showed that perception may result from processes that are embodied (e.g., Giessner & Schubert, 2007; Tiedens, 2001), physical (e.g., Trichas & Schyns, 2012), or emotional in nature (e.g., Wolff, Pescosolido, & Druskat, 2002).”