Code for: On the Road to Power: Showing Benevolence and Integrity Fuels Power Granting

This work investigates when people are willing to grant someone else power over valued resources. Based on prior work on power and trust, we assumed that people are more willing to freely give power to someone who they can trust to use power in a responsible manner - more specifically, to someone who not only (a) is interested in others' situation (shows high benevolence, rather than interest in only their own situation), but also (b) acts in line with their promises (shows high integrity, rather than say A and then does B). Four studies in a field context and in more controlled lab settings support this idea, giving us new insights into the conditions that can contribute to power granting: the road to power is paved with benevolent intentions carried out with integrity. Code for: Scholl, A., Rapp, H., van Kleef, G., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). On the Road to Power: Showing Benevolence and Integrity Fuels Power Granting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. peerReviewed unknown