REEXAMINING BASES OF POWER FROM AN ATTRIBUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Four replications of Rodrigues' (1995) study on genotypical similariti es of Raven's (1965) power taxonomy are reported. Rodrigues found that compliance induced by reward, informational, and referent power is pe rceived as more internal and controllable than compliant behavior indu ced by expert, legitimate, and coercive power. The replications includ ed 4 new aspects: (a) subjects are highly ego-involved in the hypothet ical situation presented; (b) subjects are actors rather than observer s; (c) subjects are from another culture; and (d) subjects are asked t o play the role of a supervisor and apply sanctions to the person who complied as a result of the influence attempt, thus affording an empir ical testing of Weiner's (1995) thought-affect-action sequence when re sponsibility judgments are made. The results of all 5 studies, with a total of 570 subjects, support Rodrigues' (1995) findings and confirm Weiner's (1995) hypothesis.