Power based on physical attractiveness and power based on financial resources - the influence tactics used by partners in marriage

Abstract

"Power is an omnipresent phenomenon. It can be perceived in the public sphere, in trade and political organizations; as well as in the private area, in intimate relationships between two people who are in love with each other, between a husband and wife, parents and children, and also between siblings. In psychology power is defined as the capacity to influence the kind and quality of outcomes of others’ behaviour; as well as control over the resources which provide a power-holder with the potential to exert influence, that is to say, to alter others’ behaviour (Cartwright and Zender, 1968; Kipnis, 1972; Fiske, 1993; Anderson and Berdahl, 2002; et al.)".