“…For example, although some work suggests that powerlessness should result in affiliative behaviors with coworkers (Case et al., ; Copeland, ; van Kleef et al., ), other work indicates that powerlessness may instead motivate disengagement behaviors (Blackhart, Baumeister, & Twenge, ; Derfler‐Rozin, Pillutla, & Thau, ; Twenge, Baumeister, DeWall, Ciarocco, & Bartels, ; Twenge, Baumeister, Tice, & Stucke, ), particularly in organizational settings (Ashforth, ). Consequently, understanding how powerlessness affects social closeness and associated behaviors is important, particularly because social closeness is a critical determinant of people's perceptions, emotions, and behaviors toward others at work (Magee & Smith, ; Stephan, Liberman, & Trope, ; Wiesenfeld, Reyt, Brockner, & Trope, ).…”