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    "pk": 49317,
    "title": "Low Power Constrains the Space of Narratives Available to Speakers",
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    "abstract": "How does power shape communicative freedom? During communication, speakers often balance multiple competing goals—such as being informative versus preserving their reputation. Across four experiments (N=~1400), we examined how the power relation between speakers and listeners affects narrative production in the face of conflicting informational and reputational goals. Participants imagined having to confess about a minor wrongdoing and were assigned to low, equal, or high power roles (an employee speaking to a supervisor, co-worker, or intern). Low power speakers were more likely to prioritize informativeness and believability. Importantly, the open-ended narratives they provided were more homogenous than those of high or equal power narrators, suggesting that power restricts the range of utterance choices considered. Speakers' ratings of pre-written narratives indicated that power may additionally affect how speakers evaluate the believability of different utterance choices.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Philosophy; Psychology; Language Production; Social cognition"
        }
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28w9j53d",
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        {
            "first_name": "Judy",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kim",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Molly",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Crockett",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T11:00:00-07:00",
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