Threats: Power, family mealtimes, and social influence

• Published in: British journal of social psychology Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 99 - 120
• Main Authors: Hepburn, Alexa, Potter, Jonathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2011; British Psychological Society
• Subjects: Adult; Behavior Therapy; Behavior. Attitude; Biological and medical sciences; Candidates; Child Rearing; Child, Preschool; Coercion; Compliance; Cooperative Behavior; Defense Mechanisms; Eating; Family; Family Conflict - psychology; Family Power; Family relations; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Intention; Interpersonal relations; Intervention; Male; Middle Aged; Models, Psychological; Power (Psychology); Preschool Children; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Resistance; Semantics; Social behaviour; Social Environment; Social Influence; Social Psychology; Socialization; Threat; Verbal Behavior; Human; Social influence; Social behavior; Language; Conversation analysis; Social interaction; Social power; Behavior change

One of the most basic topics in social psychology is the way one agent influences the behaviour of another. This paper will focus on threats, which are an intensified form of attempted behavioural influence. Despite the centrality to the project of social psychology, little attention has been paid t...