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Approach/Inhibition Theory of Power

Social Psychology

The Approach/Inhibition Theory of Power was developed by Dacher Keltner in 2003. It holds that power has the ability to transform an individual's psychological state, and it observes that most organisms display one of two types of reaction to their environment, an approach reaction or an inhibition reaction, with a person's degree of power shifting which of the two tends to dominate.

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Core Claim
power has the ability to transform individuals' psychological states 1
Origin Year
2003 1
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1. Wikipedia: Approach/Inhibition Theory of Power
  • Introduction
    power has the ability to transform individuals' psychological states
  • Introduction, developed sentence
    developed by Dacher Keltner in 2003
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