scholarly journals The role of social status and testosterone in human conspicuous consumption

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Wu ◽  
Christoph Eisenegger ◽  
Niro Sivanathan ◽  
Molly J. Crockett ◽  
Luke Clark
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption

scholarly journals Business Cycles with Spirit of Capitalism and Conspicuous Consumption in a Multi-Country Growth Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Wei-Bin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Trade Patterns ◽  
Economic Growth Model ◽  
Endogenous Variables ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Global Economic Growth

This paper generalizes the global economic growth model with spirit of capitalism, social status, and conspicuous consumption recently proposed by Zhang (2016). Zhang’s model examines the role of spirit of capitalism, social status, and conspicuous consumption in national and international economic development, trade patterns, and distribution of income and wealth between countries. The multi-country growth model treats social status and wealth accumulation as endogenous variables. This paper generalizes the model by Zhang through making all exogenous constant parameters as exogenous time-dependent parameters. We demonstrate how the system reacts to exogenous periodic perturbations.

scholarly journals Spirit of Capitalism and Conspicuous Consumption with Social Status in a Neoclassical Growth Trade Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Wei-Bin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Trade Patterns ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism

<p class="ber">This study deals with dynamic interactions among social status, conspicuous consumption, spirit of capitalism, global growth, trade patterns, and inequalities in income and wealth between countries. The paper constructs a multi-country growth model with endogenous physical capital, wealth accumulation and social status. The modelling of social status is influenced by the ideas related to economic growth and social status in the literature of economic growth. This study analyzes the role of conspicuous consumption by assuming that social status is enhanced by more consumption and the role of the spirit of capitalism (of some goods) by assuming that social status is enhanced by more wealth. The global economic system consists of any number of countries and each country has one capital goods sector and one consumer goods sector. This study applies an alternative utility function proposed by Zhang to analyze household behavior. The countries differ in preferences, spirits of capitalisms, and productivities. We show that the dynamics of -country world economy is described by  differential equations. We simulate the motion of the model with three countries and carry out comparative dynamic analysis with regard to some parameters.</p>

The Silver Lining in the Dark Cloud of Social Status Insecurity: The Mediating Role of Popularity Goals in the Association Between Social Status Insecurity and Chinese Adolescents’ Bullying Bystander Behaviors

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110234
Author(s):  
Yuchi Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyu Lan ◽  
Guanyu Cui ◽  
Jingke Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Status Insecurity ◽  
Peer Factors ◽  
Defending Behaviors ◽  
Bystander Behaviors

Bullying bystander behavior has an important effect on bullying—both in stopping and facilitating it. Although bullying bystander behaviors have long been understood as a peer group process, existing research that focuses on the role of peer factors is still limited. Moreover, less is known about the social cognitive-related role of peer factors and its underlying mechanisms in adolescents’ bullying bystander behaviors. Accordingly, using resource control theory, this study examines the mediating effects of popularity goals on the associations between social status insecurity and bullying bystander behaviors (active defending behaviors, passive bystanding behaviors) among 333 Chinese adolescents (181 males; Mage = 13.10; SD = .50). Analyses were conducted using SPSS 23 to conduct descriptive and correlation analyses. The hypothesized mediation model was tested using a structural equation modeling approach with bootstrapping techniques (bootstrap replications: 5,000) using AMOS 23. The results showed that popularity goals fully mediated the relationship between adolescents’ social status insecurity and their active defending behaviors. No gender differences in these mediating effects were observed. The results also indicated that popularity goals did not mediate the relationship between social status insecurity and passive bystanding behaviors. These findings enrich our understanding of bullying bystander behaviors and highlight the positive role of social cognitive factors (e.g., popularity goals) in active defending behaviors. Our findings deepen our understanding of bullying bystanders through integrating proximate and ultimate approaches. Our findings have significant practical implications, which suggest that school anti-bullying interventions should value the positive roles of social status insecurity and popularity goals in promoting active defending behaviors.

Human rights and ethnic attitudes in Spain: The role of cognitive, social status, and individual difference factors

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Dumbar ◽  
Amalio Blanco ◽  
Megan Sullaway ◽  
Javier Horcajo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Individual Difference ◽  
Ethnic Attitudes
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