With the behavioral step already taken, the low-power individual is left only with the opportunity to change the values in order to resolve the cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1962). J. Consum. We now turn to other forms of benign versus malign violations, beyond humor. Appl. Akister (1996) suggests that there are many theories of power a social worker should know of and be able to apply to her practice such as French and Raven (1959), Max Webber (1974) and Rollo May (1976). 90, 578–596. Commun. Some of these solemn issues by definition involve power asymmetry, for instance leaders and subordinates operating in a formal hierarchical system, where anger, destructive leader behavior, and destructive subordinate behavior occur. For example, they argue that high power is associated with a reduced feeling of being similar to the other person. Such violations may be funny, for instance when a teacher starts dancing on the table. Sci. In their Social Distance Theory of Power (SDTP), Magee and Smith (2013) have built on the positive correspondence between power, abstract construals, and increased social distance reported by Smith and Trope (2006). This video simulation on power asymmetry and principal agent dynamics by Professor Lawrence Susskind and Robert Wilkinson was designed to give students insights into the challenges surrounding difficult conversations, both with people across the table, as well as with people on their own side. In addition, Smith and Trope (2006) argued that increased power leads to increased tendencies to think more abstractly, a tendency indicative of larger social distance from others. doi: 10.1037/a0021887, PubMed Abstract | CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar, Einarsen, S., Aasland, M. S., and Skogstad, A. New understanding of border zones may thus be gained from BVT along with our proposed systematically mismatched judgments which parties could make about attempted benign violations. Their theory is mostly concerned with dyadic relationships where power is related to interdependence. “Knowing athletic asymmetry helps us put athletes in enviornments to utilize asymmetry in the context of proper timing. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican1062-93. If you attribute a well-meaning intent and infer it to be unknowingly done due to distance to the lingo of the youth, you may still laugh. In line with the aims of this research topic, we specifically address how this “sweet spot” may be influenced by social distance. (2011). Malign violations are accepted in spite of opposing views. Whether this violation is seen as benign, and whether the joke is perceived as funny, might depend on whether the joke-perceiver knows or thinks that the joke-teller has had a close personal relationship with someone who is blind. This goes both for the organizational context (Kim and Plester, 2019) and for the larger societal context (e.g., Jiang et al., 2019). considerable asymmetry of power; control of the flows is consolidated by the hydro-hegemon; and competition over water is stifled (Zeitoun, 2006a). COVID-19 is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation. Well, Super Asymmetry dosn’t make sense. “From a distance there is harmony” (Julie Gold). Psychol. Their second point is that cultures may differ in the extent to which they take for granted or justify power differences. The perception of the joke-teller’s actual roles and identities may be more or less accurate. This form of psychological distance has so far received less attention in the BVT than other forms of distance. However, one does not specifically differentiate between a joke-teller and a joke-listener, and whether different perspectives may influence the extent to which something is perceived as benign, a violation, and funny. direct, indirect and generalized reciprocity) among non-kin. The other being the unequivocal bad, in humor the harmful where only the violation remains. One example is roles. Second, it applies formal international relations theory to Latin American-U.S. relations, a geographical area in which comparative political theory is more commonly utilized 19, 135–141. However, here power was conceptualized as a temporary psychological state. The previous articles in this series were 1) Basic Design Principles; 2) How Our Minds React To What We See; 3) The Proximity Principle and 4) Similarity Principle in the Gestalt Theory. Typi… If the phenomena include a sweet spot as well as power differences, the BVT with our addendums may supplement the understanding of border areas in other models. Salmivalli, 2010). These components are (1) distinguishing between the joke-teller and the joke-listener; (2) addressing possible power differences between the joke-teller and the joke-listener; and (3) acknowledging the influence of culture on the relationship between power differences and humor. This can for instance occur in sexual harassment, #MeToo, bullying, aggression, abusive supervision, destructive leadership, counterproductive work behavior, organizational citizenship behavior, parenting, and family relations. Let us first turn to the case where the joke-teller is in the high-power position, and the joke-listener is in a low-power position. For instance, a sexist joke about women, told to a woman by a man unknown to her, and belonging to a different social or cultural group, could be perceived as more malign and offensive, and less funny, than the same joke told by a close female colleague belonging to one’s in-group. Relational theory Relational theory of power refers to one’s status in their interpersonal relationships. The joke-teller’s perception of this may be likely to influence what s/he chooses to joke about. For instance, the joke-teller and joke-listener could be temporally or geographically close or far apart, as could the content of the joke be to either or both parties. Lewis, C. S. (1949). doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2000.tb00194.x, Olin, L. (2016). National Center for Biotechnology Information, Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error. In the “sweet spot” lies the potential for positive change. It is also argued here that many apparently puzzling forms of cooperation observed in nature (e.g. Antonakis and Atwater, 2002). We would like to thank the two reviewers and the editor for very helpful comments and suggestions. We now turn to three components that in our view need to be included in the BVT to increase its explanatory value. (2006). Gandhi (1940) emphasized just barely breaking the (oppressive) law, without hurting others, and while telling the truth. Humor 31:85. doi: 10.1515/humor-2017-0106, Krantz, J. 45, 529–552. doi: 10.1504/IJWOE.2006.010791, Gottman, J. M., Katz, L. F., and Hooven, C. (1996). Hum. Additionally, their emphasis was on power as a state variable rather than more stable power differences. Thus, the biggest danger might perhaps be that the high-power joke-listener would be less likely to be amused by jokes that the low-power joke-teller thinks represent benign violations. Jiang et al., 2019 for a review). Such sweet spots, we suggest, exist in other models of social interaction. Proc. The implication of our current arguments is that culture could influence the circumstances under which a joke told between two individuals belonging to the same culture is seen as funny or malignant. Benign violations reside between two outer areas which the majority can agree on. Culture’s consequences: International differences in work-related values. (2012). A notable similarity to our line of reasoning is that Geddes and Callister (2007) argued that culture may influence where the shared thresholds are set, in their case through an implicit agreement for each organization. The Relational and Structural Power of the EU in Competition Policy: Addressing Asymmetry Hikaru YOSHIZAWA EM GEM Doctoral Fellow at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE) hikaru.yoshizawa@erasmusmundus-gem.eu Abstract Although there is a wide consensus among academics and practitioners that EU competition As will be accounted for in more detail later, increased psychological distance makes minor events appear less funny, and more serious events more funny (McGraw et al., 2012). Rev. doi: 10.1177/0956797612443831, McGraw, A. P., Williams, L. E., and Warren, C. (2014). Leadersh. The more psychologically distant a violation is, the more likely it therefore is to be perceived as benign. Whether a joke is perceived as a benign violation will also depend on the relative distances between the joke-teller, joke, and joke-listener. Chhokar, J. S., Brodbeck, F. C., and House, R. J.  |  “Psychological distance” in Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles. The presence of power differences between individuals or groups of individuals may influence the perceived social distance of both parties. A parietal α power asymmetry, A P, was defined similarly using channels P3 and P4. (2019). 43, 178–190. HHS 19In International Relations Theory, symmetry and asymmetry is, at first sight, closely related to material power relations. Decis. Power theories link relative power … Even jokes that do not refer to specific people may still have contents that are relevant to the social roles, social identities, attitudes, cultural practices, values, and norms of a joke-listener. Their first point is that since culture may influence people’s beliefs about what behavior is considered appropriate for a high-power individual, power differences may not necessarily lead to asymmetric social distance in all cultures. 4, 47–64. NLM We have argued that there may exist a systematic tendency explaining certain cases of mismatch between parties, with a potential for transgressions. Hofstede, G. (1980). If the high-power joke-teller is also less “empathically accurate” (cf. In principle, asymmetric power might influence all four forms of social distance presented previously. I reflected on May (1976) power dynamics while working with S which Akister (1996) categorised in four different ways namely; power against, power ov… Thus, the perceived social distance between the joke-teller and the joke might be influenced by the one person’s perception of the other’s attitudes, social roles, social identities, cultural affiliation, etc. doi: 10.1037/1072-5245.13.4.399, Padilla, A., Hogan, R., and Kaiser, R. B. According to the BVT, psychological distance reduces the tendency for people to perceive aversive stimuli or events as threatening (McGraw et al., 2014). (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications). Liberman, N., Trope, Y., and Stephan, E. (2007). NIH Here, it is proposed that the concepts of asymmetry and symmetry in power and dominance are critical if we are ever to resolve the puzzle of altruism and cooperation towards non-kin. This type of asymmetry has been used to constrain the parton distribution functions of protons at the Tevatron from events in which a produced W boson decays to a charged lepton. While relationships with a power balance between partners do exist, relationships typically occur in the context of power asymmetry. They argued that high-power individuals are less motivated to affiliate with others and therefore less likely to experience socially engaging emotions and more likely to experience socially disengaging emotions. It focuses on two under-developed theoretical concepts in situations of competition over water: the existence of varying intensities of conflicts and the extent of power asymmetry between riparians. (Academic press). Information asymmetry extends to non-economic behavior. The editor and reviewers' affiliations are the latest provided on their Loop research profiles and may not reflect their situation at the time of review. We choose here to use Olin’s (2016) terminology of joke-teller and joke-listener. In the current paper, we specifically focus on the social component of psychological distance (cf. A charge asymmetry or particle-antiparticle asymmetry is defined in a similar way. According to the SDTP, this may lead high-power individuals in an asymmetric relationship to display empathic inaccuracy (Magee and Smith, 2013). This goes for societies in general (Gelfand et al., 2011; Plester, 2016), organizations (Plester, 2009), as well as for other social entities. Moreover, they did not discuss the case of asymmetric power, or possible consequences of power differences between a joke-teller and joke-listener. Psychol. *Correspondence: Leo Kant, leo.kant@uib.no; Elisabeth Norman, elisabeth.norman@uib.no, Front. Relat. Corrupt organizations or totalitarian states are rarely created overnight. RESEARCH ARTICLE 10.1002/2014WR016257 Power asymmetry in conflict resolution with application to a water pollution dispute in China Jing Yu1,2,3, D. Marc Kilgour4,5, Keith W. Hipel5,6, and Min Zhao7 1School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, 2Research Center for International Economy and Trade, Nanjing University of Science and … doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2008.01.001, Keywords: benign violation theory, psychological distance, social distance, culture, power asymmetry, destructive leadership, anger, humor perception, Citation: Kant L and Norman E (2019) You Must Be Joking! When superimposing the different maps of the high-power party and the low-power party, it does not only reveal a fixed border zone, but a disputed no-man’s-land with split opinions, perhaps even a frontier for change. If benign violations may take the form of any type of behavior occurring in the narrow border areas between the acceptable and unacceptable in everyday social interaction, the theoretical implications of our arguments may be broad. Work Organ. When something is perceived as psychologically distant, people tend to represent them more abstractly (Trope and Liberman, 2010). Whether a joke told by a joke-teller to a joke-listener is perceived as funny by either or both of them could depend on a number of factors that would influence the extent to which something would simultaneously be seen as benign and a violation. Violated expectations can indeed be funny, as is acknowledged by incongruity theories of humor. It is thus a violation of the expected or contractual obligations, which also is deemed benign. altruism; asymmetric power; competition; cooperation; direct reciprocity; generalized reciprocity; indirect reciprocity; punishment; symmetric power. House, P. J. Hanges, M. Javidan, P. W. Dorfman, and V. Gupta (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), 9–28. Humor with its bright and dark uses could in general be considered a type of spectrum behavior (cf. Magee and Smith (2013) also claimed that power is related to the tendency to experience socially engaging versus disengaging emotions. Parental meta-emotion philosophy and the emotional life of families: theoretical models and preliminary data. Here, a benign violation would not necessarily be associated with humor or amusement, but could be associated with other positive emotions (e.g., appreciation, enthusiasm, respect) and have other positive personal and interpersonal consequences (e.g., organizational improvement, loyalty, identification). For instance, imagine someone (with intact vision) who tells a joke about blind persons. Culture could also influence norms for expressing amusement. Based on the assumption that power influences social distance, we argue that power asymmetry may explain certain disagreements over whether something is … Even though this paper is a conceptual analysis, we here briefly exemplify some ideas for empirical research that could be used to test our claims. 2016 Feb 5;371(1687):20150084. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0084. doi: 10.1037/a0018963, Warren, C., Barsky, A., and McGraw, A. P. (2018). This site needs JavaScript to work properly. It draws from three strands in the literature. Emot. However, there is a theory called supersymmetry, which is a very popular extension of … Sci. J. One is that even jokes that include norm violations not regarded as benign can sometimes be perceived as funny (Olin, 2016). Commodity-specific punishment for experimentally induced defection in cooperatively breeding fish. Therefore, it could be possible to bring the BVT into a greater social context. cooperative breeding in which unrelated subordinates help dominants to breed) might be best explained by asymmetry in power and dominance. Thus, a violation could more easily be perceived as malign. The weight of glory, and other addresses. Copyright © 2019 Kant and Norman. doi: 10.1016/S1048-9843(02)00155-8, Breevaart, K., Bakker, A., Hetland, J., Demerouti, E., Olsen, O. K., and Espevik, R. (2014). This could further increase the risk of offensive jokes. Olin (2016) pointed to questions that theories of humor need to explain, over and above the fundamental question of what makes something funny or not funny. In preparing for this topic area candidates should study the way power is represented in spoken and written discourses, for example in official documents, media texts, advice leaflets etc. Relationships of role stressors with organizational citizenship behavior: a meta-analysis. Here, we argue that a joke-listener and a joke also may be socially distant or socially close, as perceived by the joke-listener or joke-teller. (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). Plester, B. Get the latest public health information from CDC: https://www.coronavirus.gov, Get the latest research information from NIH: https://www.nih.gov/coronavirus, Find NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/. The BVT explains why some attempts may succeed, some may fall short, and others may overshoot the sweet spot. By this, we mean that the individualized or dyadic level of analysis may be particularly relevant in the border zone, and group-level analysis more relevant with increasing levels of severity (be it good or bad). Kaluza had 1919 already the idea, that a 4. spatial dimension would explain the particle much easier. (2012, 2014) have most clearly addressed is the psychological distance between the joke-listener and the joke. Based on the assumption that power influences social distance, we argue that power asymmetry may explain certain disagreements over whether something is funny. Soc. doi: 10.1111/joop.12041. (2007). The social distance to the joke would then depend on the person’s commitment or dedication to each of these. Int. Here, it may also be meaningful to point to the possible influence of organizational culture (e.g., Geddes and Callister, 2007), which could influence the absolute level of how certain groups of individuals may perceive or use humor. In this case, cultural differences may influence the relative thresholds for each party. J. Exp. Epub 2007 Jul 10. However, when the joke-listener is in a low-power position, their impropriety threshold becomes correspondingly lower. This should be a less critical situation. Violation of social expectations may also be funny. Even though humor is a universal phenomenon, there are also cultural differences. (2014, p. 567), “posit the existence of a sweet spot for humor—a time period in which tragedy is not too close nor too far away to be humorous.” Throughout this paper, we use the term sweet spot synonymously with the distance range (temporal, geographical, social, or hypothetical) at which a violation is seen as benign for a given person or a dyad, and thus being potentially funny. Meyer, 2000). Even seemingly intelligent and emotionally sensitive people sometimes make jokes that others find offensive. Both practitioners involved in a power-sharing arrangement and scholars who study collaborative governance usually assume a power-sharing arrangement by default in collaborative arrangements. Q. Examples used by McGraw et al. 2003 Jan 22;270(1511):199-205. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2225. Our social relationships to family, friends, leaders, and coworkers can involve a goal of catching a bus, getting a work task done, or getting the children to bed at night. Anger above the expressed threshold but below the impropriety threshold is in the sweet spot. Finding humor in distant tragedies and close mishaps. This is consistent with experimental findings showing that high social class predicts increased unethical behavior (Piff et al., 2012): the unethical behaviors in the experiments included ignoring shared norms, even rules, with high-social class individuals allowing themselves to break traffic rules and steal candy from children. First, it demands that when hegemonic stability theory is applied it cannot be assumed that all levels of power asymmetry create security cooperation equally. 13, 399–422. doi: 10.1177/1948550613515006, Meyer, J. C. (2000). In other words, there is a “too much” in OCB, which may become offensive. 7, 555–566. The concept of super-asymmetry is related to super-symmetry string theory . The first contribution of the paper is to provide a detailed description of the properties of an APD random variable, such as its quantiles and expected shortfall. According to predictions derived from the SDTP, this would crucially depend both on which form of social distance (sections “Social Distance Between Joke-Listener and Joke” to “The Relative Social Distance Between Joke-Teller, Joke, and Joke-Listener”) we are concerned with, in combination with the particular power balance in the relationship. What Magee and Smith (2013) hypothesized about the relationship between asymmetric experiences of social distance and power could provide an important contribution here. From the feminist perspective, this theory can be viewed in three ways: How men look at women, how women look at themselves and finally, how women look at other women. (2007). Soc. Those below may however perceive the same as a beginning avalanche. A state in which differences in status exist between individuals and groups of individuals within an organizational hierarchy and these differences result in differential ability to take action or cause action to be taken. (Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum). You focus on the forest when you're in charge of the trees: power priming and abstract information processing. Manag. The fundamental question that any psychological theory of humor needs to explain is why something is perceived as funny and other things are perceived as not funny. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. The effects of time perspective and level of construal on social distance. This is of course primarily a question of relative distance. Acad. Power asymmetry could be an integral part, where the low-power person, the new employee, the young, and so on want to appeal to the high-power person. In line with this general focus on the social element of humor, Olin (2016) differentiated between the joke-teller and joke-listener. The latter may however touch quite sinister topics, such as sexual harassment, bullying, abusive supervision, destructive leadership, and so on. Note that this discussion will be limited to situations in which someone intentionally tells a joke to someone else, and where the intention is to be funny by hitting the sweet spot of both joke-teller and joke-listener. The black hole in “bullying at work” research. A potential theoretical implication is whether change is possible through the suggested mechanisms. These power relationships give way to unequal encounters. Psychol. (2009). Psychol. One limitation to empirical studies of the BVT is that they have not addressed all forms of psychological distance to an equal extent. First, the stimulus must represent a violation which is contrary to expectations and threatens the person’s view of what the world “ought” to be. Q. The symmetry or asymmetry of a relationship is not always easily defined, as multiple factors can come into play. Psychol. Gender-related asymmetry may for instance be found in matriarchies and patriarchies. To the extent that amusement can be seen as an emotion, it is perhaps the emotion for which there is the strongest uncertainty as to what type of antecedents elicit it (McGraw et al., 2014; Martin and Ford, 2018). Most fundamentally, power asymmetry might influence the social distance between a joke-teller and a joke-listener. Theory 10, 310–331. They found substantial differences in the contents of and reactions to humor among subordinates and superiors. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00123, Kim, H. S., and Plester, B. Yet asymmetric power presents serious problems for reciprocity theory in that a dominant individual faces a temptation to cheat in interactions with subordinates that is likely to far outweigh any individual selective benefits gained through reciprocal mechanisms. All three elements are relevant to the model’s predictions about the role of psychological distance in humor. The social setting in which the something is observed, heard, or experienced is not taken into consideration. For example, a violation can occur when a person by telling a joke steps out of their expected role. 10:1380. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01380. Jiang et al. (2006). We do not claim to be the first to suggest that social power may be an important variable for the BVT to take into account. You could be asked to analyse either a spoken or written text. In our view, theories of humor also need to address why people sometimes tell jokes that others may find insulting or inappropriate. (1994, p. 1125) concluded that “Regardless of the manager’s intent (i.e., to deliberately insult/intimidate the subordinate, or merely to innocently retell an ‘amusing’ joke), such behavior is a high-risk activity.” We will discuss power differences in section “Power Differences and the Case of Asymmetry.”. These may concern both how humor is perceived, valued, and used (cf. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1994.tb02376.x. J. Appl. Martin, R. A., and Ford, T. (2018). A threat is benign when perceived as “safe, harmless, acceptable, nonserious, or okay” (Warren et al., 2018, p. 5). The Male Gaze theory, in a nutshell, is where women in the media are viewed from the eyes of a heterosexual man, and that these women are represented as passive objects of male desire. This is indeed consistent with what Knegtmans et al. Our emphasis on the role of potential power asymmetry may explain why a joke-teller and a joke-listener may perceive the sweet spot to be of different size and different location. However, such behaviors may also take place in other contexts of power asymmetry, for example in families. 9:2643. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02643, Knegtmans, H., van Dijk Wilco, W., Mooijman, M., van Lier, N., Rintjema, S., and Wassink, A. In contract theory and economics, information asymmetry deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other. Herein lies the systematic potential for mismatched maps. Trope and Liberman, 2010). Resour. Soc. How can the basic ideas in the SDTP (Magee and Smith, 2013) be incorporated into the BVT? Humor 26, 277–293. It is therefore surprising that these elements have not yet been systematically integrated into the BVT. Personal. R Soc Open Sci. The natural home of information asymmetry within agency theory is the setting in . It could also be added that the influence of culture is likely to be slow to change. Passivity and silence are often required of many, as in the rise of the Nazi regime (Lewin, 1943) or with the #MeToo. Mak. Thus, it could have both direct and indirect effects on humor perception. You can play around with roles—violate them—in a benign fashion. LK had the main responsibility for conceptualizing and writing those parts of the manuscript that address implications and applications of the framework in a broader context. Plester, 2016). For instance, Hemmasi et al. However, it could be relevant to other types of relationships where interdependence is less present or central than in dyads. doi: 10.2307/1556375, Trope, Y., and Liberman, N. (2010). Humor, comedy, and consumer behavior. Luthar, V. K., and Luthar, H. K. (2002). 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