This paper integrates the concepts of person–environment (PE) fit and social capital and examines the social dynamics of organizational newcomers’ development of fit with their new environment in the light of national cultural variations. Specifically, we present a conceptual framework that illustrates how newcomers fit in with their work environment in terms of person–job (PJ) and person–organ...

Past research has shown that position in a social hierarchy modulates one's social attention, as in the gaze cueing effect. While studies have manipulated the social status of others with whom the participants interact, we believe that a sense of one's own social power is also a crucial factor affecting gaze following. In two experiments, we primed the social power of participants, using differ...

Online Social Networks have recently become extremely popular and generate a huge volume of spontaneous data. Knowing demographics of these users can provide useful information (e.g. marketing campaign segmentation). Unlike most approaches, we propose the use of Ecological Inference for understanding demographics of groups of people. Our results show that it is possible to infer gender and age ...

We analyze the structure of a society driven by power relations. Our model has an exogenous power relation over the set of coalitions of agents. Agents determine the social order by forming coalitions. The power relations determine the ranking of agents in society for any social order. We study a cooperative game in partition function form and introduce a solution concept, the stable social ord...

Three studies explored whether social power affects the perception of physical properties of objects, testing the hypothesis that the powerless find objects to be heavier than the powerful. Correlational findings from Study 1 revealed that people with a low personal sense of power perceived loaded boxes as heavier than people with a high personal sense of power. In Study 2 experimentally manipu...