You focus on the forest when you're in charge of the trees: power priming and abstract information processing.

By Pamela K. Smith, Yaacov Trope. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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GLOMOsys: A Systems Account of Global Versus Local Processing (2010, background): “Moreover, high power can be conceived of as social distance, because it often relates to independence (of other people) relative to low power (see Smith & Trope, 2006).”
Does Negative Feedback Benefit (or Harm) Recipient Creativity? The Role of the Direction of Feedback Flow (2020, background): “Furthermore, as suggested above, people with low social power, relative to those with high social power, tend to decrease their task-focused attention and fail to suppress their attention to task-irrelevant information (Smith et al., 2008; Smith & Trope, 2006).”
Power, stability of power, and creativity (2011, background): “However, mixed findings emerge for creative performance, with some studies demonstrating that power leads to higher creativity (Galinsky, Magee, Gruenfeld, Whitson & Liljenquist, 2008; Smith & Trope, 2006) while others point to an opposite pattern (Kuhl & Kazen, 2008).”
Why Feasibility Matters More to Gift Receivers than to Givers: A Construal-Level Approach to Gift Giving (2014, methodology): “The tradition of gift giving is as old as culture itself.From the Kula ring formed by the Trobriand islanders (Malinowski 1922), to the pottery gift exchanges organized by the ancient Maya (Tourtellot and Sabloff 1972), to today’s frenzied holiday shopping, gift-giving rituals have played a central…”
When Hierarchy Wins (2012, neutral): “…leadership responsibilities, while people at the bottom can fulfill the role of being vigilant, inhibiting inappropriate or ineffective action (Galinsky, Gruenfeld, & Magee, 2003; Galinsky, Magee, Gruenfeld, Whitson, & Liljenquist, 2008; Keltner, Gruenfeld, & Anderson, 2003; Trope & Smith, 2006).”
The detrimental effects of power on confidence, advice taking, and accuracy (2011, background): “In addition, research in the tradition of construal level theory has documented that some types of power are associated with the use of language that conveys certainty (Magee, Milliken, & Lurie, 2010; Smith & Trope, 2006).”
Power reduces the press of the situation: implications for creativity, conformity, and dissonance. (2008, background): “On the basis of the data presented here, we suggest that power changes construals, opens up new channels for cognition and behavior that are closed to others, and fundamentally alters the strength of the situation (see also Galinsky et al., 2003; P. K. Smith & Trope, 2006 ).”
Construal Levels and Psychological Distance: Effects on Representation, Prediction, Evaluation, and Behavior. (2007, background): “Reasoning that elevated power increases the psychological distance one feels from others, Smith and Trope (2006) examined the relationship between power activation and abstraction.”
HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN: AN ACTOR-CENTRIC APPROACH TO DAILY PSYCHOLOGICAL POWER, ABUSIVE LEADER BEHAVIOR, AND PERCEIVED INCIVILITY (2017, methodology): “In the sentence completion tasks (Smith & Trope, 2006), participants were shown 10 combinations of five words and were asked to create a grammatically correct sentence for each combination using four of the words (e.g., “somewhat prepared Iwas told”5 “Iwas somewhat prepared”).”
Behaviour variability and the Situated Focus Theory of Power (2007, background): “The results of this study demonstrate that powerful individuals do not necessarily process information in a more abstract way (see Smith & Trope, 2006).”