Is this all just a language-related misunderstanding?

This commentary delves into Obenauer and Kalsher's focal article (2023) to explore possible links between the observed effects and the notion of language-related misunderstanding. Language-related misunderstanding is defined as unintentional error in comprehension by receivers due to the form of language employed by senders in communicating a message (Fiset et al., in press).

Leader emergence and affective empathy: A dynamic test of the dual-hormone hypothesis.

Personal distress is a building block of empathy, yet has received scant attention in studies of individual differences in leadership. We investigate whether the effect of leader emergence on men's distress is influenced by their personalized power motive (p Power) and changes in their testosterone (T) and cortisol (C) levels. In an experiment involving 96 males, p Power modulated the direction and intensity of T change in emergent leaders, with high p-Power leaders showing a more positive T change compared to their low p-Power counterparts.

Workplace Ostracism Seen through the Lens of Power.

Drawing on approach/inhibition theory of power, we investigated two factors that influence the manner by which victims react to workplace ostracism: the hierarchical status of the ostracizer and the level of an ostracizee's external social support including family, friends, and significant others. Across an experimental vignette study (Study 1) and a field study (Study 2), we found support for a three-way interaction with felt ostracism, ostracizee external social support, and ostracizer status influencing victims' organizational citizenship behavior and deviance directed toward other individuals. In addition, felt ostracism and ostracizee external social support interacted to predict turnover intentions.