The Psychology of Social Status

ISBN-13: 9781493908660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 365 str.

Joey T. Cheng; Jessica L. Tracy; Cameron Anderson

Opis

Given the far-reaching effects of status on human societies, understanding the psychology of social status is crucial. Across all societies, differences in social rank or status not only determine who leads and who follows, but also the ways in which individuals resolve conflicts, allocate goods and resources and coordinate to achieve shared group goals. The Psychology of Social Status outlines the key advances and developments that have been made in the field thus far. The goal of this volume is to provide an in-depth exploration of the psychology of human status, by reviewing each of the major lines of theoretical and empirical work that have been conducted in this vein. - An overview of several prominent overarching theoretical perspectives that have shaped much of the current research on social status. - Examination of the personality, demographic, situational and emotional underpinnings of status attainment, addressing questions about why and how people attain status. - Identification of the intra- and inter-personal benefits and costs of possessing and lacking status, examining the downstream effects of high and low status on human cognition, behavior and interpersonal and inter-group relations. - Highlights of new and future directions in research on status-with a particular emphasis on how status research can effectively be applied to better understand problems and issues in the social world.

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Front Matter

           

Preface and acknowledgments

Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, and Cameron Anderson

Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: The Nature of Social Status and Hierarchy

 

Chapter 1. Toward a unified science of hierarchy: Dominance and prestige are two fundamental pathways to human social rank

 Joey T. Cheng and Jessica L. Tracy

 

Chapter 2. Prestige and the ongoing process of culture revision

 Jerome H. Barkow

 

Chapter 3. Do status hierarchies benefit groups? A bounded functionalist account of status

 Cameron Anderson and Robb Willer

 

Chapter 4. What’s in a name? Status, power, and other forms of social hierarchy

 Steven L. Blader and Ya-Ru Chen

 

Part II. Who Leads? Psychological Underpinnings of Status Attainment

 

Chapter 5. Personality and status attainment:  A Micropolitics perspective

Cameron Anderson and Jon Cowan

 

Chapter 6. The status-size hypothesis: How cues of physical size and social status influence each other

 Nancy M. Blaker and Mark van Vugt

 

Chapter 7. Prosocial behavior and social status

 Sara Kafashan, Adam Sparks, Vladas Griskevicius, and Pat Barclay

 

Chapter 8. The pursuit of status: A self-presentational perspective on the quest for social value

 Mark R. Leary, Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno, and Kate J. Diebels

 

Chapter 9. The roots and fruits of social status in small-scale human societies

 Christopher von Rueden

 

Chapter 10. The emotional underpinnings of social status

 Conor M. Steckler and Jessica L. Tracy

Part III. Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Consequences of Status

 

Chapter 11. Decision-making at the top: Benefits and barriers

Nathanael J. Fast and Priyanka D. Joshi

 

Chapter 12.     Social categories create and reflect inequality: Psychological and sociological insights 

Michael S. North and Susan T. Fiske

Part IV. How is Status Manifested in the Body?

 

Chapter 13. Hormones and hierarchies 

Erik L. Knight and Pranjal H. Mehta

 

Chapter 14. Neural basis of social status hierarchy

Narun Pornpattananangkul, Caroline F. Zink, Joan Y. Chiao

 

Chapter 15.     Nonverbal communication and the vertical dimension of social relations

Judith A. Hall, Ioana-Maria Latu, Dana R. Carney, Marianne Schmid Mast

 

Part V. Methodology

 

Chapter 16.     The assessment of social status: A review of measures and experimental manipulations

Joey T. Cheng, Aaron C. Weidman, and Jessica L. Tracy

O autorze

Joey T. Cheng

University of California, Berkeley

Jessica L. Tracy

University of British Columbia

Cameron Anderson

University of California, Berkeley

Blurb

Given the far-reaching effects of status on human societies, understanding the psychology of social status is crucial. Across all societies, differences in social rank or status not only determine who leads and who follows, but also the ways in which individuals resolve conflicts, allocate goods and resources, and coordinate to achieve shared group goals.

The Psychology of Social Status outlines the foundational insights, key advances, and developments that have been made in the field thus far. The goal of this volume is to provide an in-depth exploration of the psychology of human status, by reviewing each of the major lines of theoretical and empirical work that have been conducted in this vein. Organized thematically, the volume covers the following areas:

 - An overview of several prominent overarching theoretical perspectives that have shaped much of the current research on social status.

 - Examination of the personality, demographic, situational, emotional, and cultural underpinnings of status attainment, addressing questions about why and how people attain status.

 - Identification of the intra- and inter-personal benefits and costs of possessing and lacking status.

- Emerging research on the biological and bodily manifestation of status attainment

- A broad review of available research methods for measuring and experimentally manipulating social status

 ​A key component of this volume is its interdisciplinary focus.  Research on social status cuts across a variety of academic fields, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, organizational science others; thus the chapter authors are drawn from a similarly wide-range of disciplines. Encompassing the current state of knowledge in a thriving and proliferating field, The Psychology of Social Status is a fascinating and comprehensive resource for researchers, students, policy-makers, and others interested in learning about the complex nature of social status, hierarchy, dominance, and power.