Power motivation revisited
Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 26 June 1992
David G. Winter
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Abstract
The power motive is the desire to have impact on other people, to affect their behavior or emotions. This broad and general definition includes a whole family of overlapping concepts such as influence, inspiration, nurturance, authority, leadership, control, dominance, coercion, and aggression. Although these concepts have varying connotations of legitimacy, morality, and implied reaction of the other person (the "target" of power), they share a core meaning of one person's capacity to affect the behavior or feelings of another person (see D. G. Winter, 1973, chapter 1).
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Psychology