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Participant 4
Participant 5
Target’s Actual
Role:
Leader
Participant D
Target’s Actual
Role:
Subordinate
Participant E
Perceptions of Target’s Role
Participant 4: Subordinate
Participant 5: Leader
Figure 2. A condition in which the opposite-sex
participants have incorrect (i.e., flipped)
information concerning the identity of the leader
and subordinate.
From the perspective of each participant, these instructions permitted the
examination of two separate experimental manipulations. First, the instructions
manipulated the opposite-sex partners’ actual power (Target’s Actual Role
manipulation): The instructions told each opposite-sex partner that he/she was the
“manager” (Target’s Actual Role: Leader) or a “builder” (Target’s Actual Role:
Subordinate). In other words, the Target’s Actual Role manipulation is what the
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