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Social power is often defined as the ability to influence cognitive and behavioral aspects of other persons. Power relations then embrace almost the whole sphere of social behavior because in every interaction we are attempting to influence the other in his thinking, willing and acting, or the other way about, we succumb to the influence of the other.
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Schneider, HD. (1981). Attribution and Social Power. In: Holler, M.J. (eds) Power, Voting, and Voting Power. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-00411-1_6
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