Editing Power (social and political) (section)

=== Positive ===
* Power prompts people to take action
* Makes individuals more responsive to changes within a group and its environment<ref>Keltner, D., Van Kleef, G. A., Chen, S., & Kraus, M. W. (2008). A reciprocal influence model of social power: Emerging principles and lines of inquiry. ''Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 40'', 151–192.</ref>
* Powerful people are more proactive, more likely to speak up, make the first move, and lead negotiation<ref>Magee, J. C., Galinsky, A. D., & Gruenfeld, D. H. (2007). "Power, propensity to negotiate, and moving first in competitive interactions". ''Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin'', 33, 200–212.
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* Powerful people are more focused on the goals appropriate in a given situation and tend to plan more task-related activities in a work setting<ref>Guinote, A. (2008). Power and affordances: When the situation has more power over powerful than powerless individuals. ''Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95:2,'' 237–252.</ref>
* Powerful people tend to experience more positive emotions, such as happiness and satisfaction, and they smile more than low-power individuals<ref>Berdahl, J. L., & Martorana, P. (2006). Effects of power on emotion and expression during a controversial discussion. European Journal of Social Psychology: Special Issue on Social Power and Group Processes, 36, 497–509.</ref>
* Power is associated with optimism about the future because more powerful individuals focus their attention on more positive aspects of the environment<ref>Anderson, C., & Galinsky, A.D. (2006). Power, optimism, and risk-taking. ''European Journal of Social Psychology, 36,'' 511–536.</ref>
* People with more power tend to carry out executive cognitive functions more rapidly and successfully, including internal control mechanisms that coordinate attention, decision-making, planning, and goal-selection<ref>Smith, P.K., N.B. Jostmann, A.D. Galinsky, W.W. van Dijk. 2008. Lacking power impairs executive functions. Psychol. Sci. 19: 441–447.</ref>