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.

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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

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781493945498
Publisert
2016-08-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Vekt
581 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
365

Biografisk notat

Joey T. Cheng

University of California, Berkeley

Jessica L. Tracy

University of British Columbia

Cameron Anderson

University of California, Berkeley