权力的社会认知研究述评

作为人类古老现象的权力，却是社会心理学的一个崭新课题。近年来，社会心理学家从社会认知的视角对权力心理进行了很多具有启发性的研究。理论和实证研究表明，权力的存在或激发广泛地影响了个体有意和无意的社会认知、情绪和社会行为，这些心理和行为既包含消极的成分，也包含中性和积极的成分。文章指出了权力心理学具有“强调社会认知、基础认知甚至神经机制”等特点和趋势。

A Review of Studies of Power from the Perspective of Social Cognition

Power is an old phenomenon for human, but is a new research topic for social psychologist. Recently, many intriguing studies of power from the perspective of social cognition have been proposed by social psychologist. The theories and studies showed that power consciously or unconsciously influence the social cognition, emotion and social behavior of people regardless of whether it was assigned or primed. Power had not only corrupting effects but also neutral and positive consequences. The article analyzed the trends of the power research, such as paying more attention to social cognition, fundamental cognition and brain mechanism of power than before.