How steep should a hierarchy be, or should there be a hierarchical stratification at all? Research on power, divided … between two main research streams (i.e., functionalist and conflict theories of power), reports discrepant answers to this … question. This paper suggests that the choice between groups with low, high, and moderate power disparity depends on whether …

strength, power, and aggression, we argue that height is going to be one of the decision cues used. As a result, people are …

Leadership implies power. We argue, from a social embodiment perspective, that thinking about power involves mental … simulations of vertical location. Three studies tested whether judgments of leaders’ power and information on a vertical location … are interrelated. In Studies 1a-c, participants judged a leader's power after being presented with, among other …

and Disneyland. Meanwhile, American intellectuals servicing the US power elite dismiss European elites as "Euroweenies …