Abstract
The influence of frustration and aggression in fantasy on a source's exercise of coercive power was investigated. Half of the 46 female subjects were frustrated and half were not; further, half of each of these two groups were given the opportunity to express aggression in fantasy via a TAT and half were not. All subjects were then given coercive power in an interaction with a defiant target. Frustration caused subjects to establish higher credibility for their threats, and the opportunity to express aggression in fantasy had an accommodative effective on the use of coercive power.
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