Question: Social power in the classroom. Elias (2007) asked students about the appropriateness of various types of social power used by professors in the classroom. This author asked a group of participants to complete a survey where higher scores indicated more appropriate ratings for the use of a type of social power. He found that students rated informational power (student complies because instructor gave logical explanation) and expert power (compliance because the instructor is considered to have superior knowledge) as the most appropriate for professors to use in the classroom: A [within-subjects] ANOVA indicated that informational power and expert power were rated as being the most appropriate individual bases of power for professors to use, F(10, 81) = 49.00, p