scholarly journals Super Size Me: An Unsuccessful Preregistered Replication of the Effect of Product Size on Status Signaling

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignazio Ziano ◽  
Burak Tunca
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Consumer Psychology ◽  
Product Size ◽  
Status Signaling ◽  
The Status ◽  
Large Product ◽  
Nonsignificant Effect

Dubois, Rucker, and Galinsky (2012, Experiment 1) found that consumers view larger-size options as a signal of higher status. We conducted a close replication of this finding (N = 415), and observed a nonsignificant effect in the opposite direction (small vs. large product size: doriginal = 1.49, 95%CI [1.09, 1.89], dreplication = 0.09 95%CI [-0.15, 0.33]; medium vs. large: doriginal = 0.89 95%CI [0.52, 1.26], dreplication = 0.11 95%CI [-0.13, 0.34]; small vs. medium: doriginal = 0.62 95%CI [0.26, 0.98], dreplication = -0.01 95%CI [-0.25, 0.23]). We discuss potential reasons for this unsuccessful replication as well as implications for the status-signaling literature in consumer psychology

Rebranding China

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Pu
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Status Signaling ◽  
Status Seeking ◽  
Military Transformation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Offensive Realism

China plays a variety of status games, sometimes emphasizing its status as an emerging great power and other times highlighting its status as a fragile developing country. The reasons for this are unclear. Drawing on original Chinese sources, social psychological theories, and international relations theories, this book provides a theoretically informed analysis of China’s global rebranding and repositioning in the twenty-first century. Contrary to offensive realism and power transition theory, the book argues that China is not always a status maximizer eager to replace the United States as the new global leader. Differing from most constructivist and psychological studies that focus on the status seeking of rising powers, this study develops a theory of status signaling that combines both rationalist and constructivist insights. The book argues that Chinese leaders face competing pressure from domestic and international audiences to project different images. The book suggests that China’s continual struggle for international status is primarily driven by domestic political calculations. Meanwhile, at the international level, China is concerned about over-recognition of its status for instrumental reasons. The theoretical argument is illustrated through detailed analysis of Chinese foreign policy. Examining major cases such as China’s military transformation, China’s regional diplomacy, and China’s global diplomacy during the 1997 Asian and 2008 global financial crises, this book makes important contributions to international relations theory and Asian studies.

Status Signaling Is Absent within Age-and-Sex Classes of Harris' Sparrows

The Auk ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy M. Jackson ◽  
Sievert Rohwer ◽  
Robin L. Winnegrad
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Fighting Ability ◽  
Status Signaling ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
The Status ◽  
Signaling Hypothesis ◽  
Mixed Age ◽  
Badge Size ◽  
Age And Sex

Abstract We tested the status-signaling hypothesis in two groups of same-age and same-sex Harris' Sparrows (Zonotrichia querula). Unlike flocks of mixed age and sex composition, badge size did not correlate with social status in these groups; thus, status signaling does not appear to occur within age-and-sex classes of Harris' Sparrows. Other predictions of the status-signaling hypothesis we tested were that (1) fighting ability and social status should be correlated, and (2) fighting ability and badge size should be correlated. We used a multivariate assessment of body size as an indicator of fighting ability and found no support for either prediction in the flock of adult females. In the flock of adult males, large birds were more dominant (Prediction 1) but fighting ability and badge size were not correlated (contra Prediction 2).

Domestic Audience, Nationalism, and Weapons of Mass Consumption

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Pu
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Aircraft Carrier ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Status Signaling ◽  
The Status

This chapter opens with a conceptual analysis of how China signals a higher status through conspicuous consumption in international relations. It then turns to the importance of domestic audience and nationalism. The chapter discusses China’s aircraft carrier project and 2015 military parade, examining the underlying motivations and comparing the status signaling argument with competing approaches.

Why Are Waxwings “Waxy”? Delayed Plumage Maturation in the Cedar Waxwing

The Auk ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. James Mountjoy ◽  
Raleigh J. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Status Signaling ◽  
Delayed Plumage Maturation ◽  
Female Mimicry ◽  
Bombycilla Cedrorum ◽  
Plumage Maturation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Cedar Waxwing ◽  
Signaling Hypothesis

Abstract Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) often have their secondaries tipped with red waxlike appendages, but a plausible hypothesis for the function of these tips has not been presented. Both males and females may have such tips, but second-year birds normally have none or only a few. This appears to be the first described instance of a passerine species to show distinctive delayed plumage maturation in both sexes. We found that waxwings mated assortatively with respect to the number of tips on the secondaries of the birds. Pairs of older birds (with high tip index scores) tended to nest earlier than younger (low tip index) birds. Older birds also had larger clutch/brood sizes and fledged more young. We suggest that the waxlike tips function as signals of age and status and that some combination of mate choice and competition for mates results in the observed assortative mating. Of the hypotheses proposed to explain the adaptive significance of delayed plumage maturation, two (the female-mimicry and cryptic hypotheses) are not confirmed in the case of the Cedar Waxwing, while the status-signaling hypothesis appears to offer the best explanation for the occurrence of delayed plumage maturation in this species.

scholarly journals Irish merchants and seamen in late medieval England

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (125) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy R. Childs
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
General Context ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Status ◽  
Late Medieval England ◽  
The Middle Ages

Most studies of Anglo-Irish relations in the middle ages understandably concentrate on the activity of the English in Ireland, and unintentionally but inevitably this can leave the impression that the movement of people was all one way. But this was not so, and one group who travelled in the opposite direction were some of the merchants and seamen involved in the Anglo-Irish trade of the period. Irish merchants and seamen travelled widely and could be found in Iceland, Lisbon, Bordeaux, Brittany and Flanders, but probably their most regular trade remained with their closest neighbour and political overlord: England. They visited most western and southern English ports, but inevitably were found most frequently in the west, especially at Chester and Bristol. The majority of them stayed for a few days or weeks, as long as their business demanded. Others settled permanently in England, or, perhaps more accurately, re-settled in England, for those who came to England both as settlers and visitors were mainly the Anglo-Irish of the English towns in Ireland and not the Gaelic Irish. This makes it difficult to estimate accurately the numbers of both visitors and settlers, because the status of the Anglo-Irish was legally that of denizen, and record-keepers normally had no reason to identify them separately. They may, therefore, be hard to distinguish from native Englishmen of similar name outside the short periods when governments (central or urban) temporarily sought to restrict their activities. However, the general context within which they worked is quite clear, and this article considers three main aspects of that context: first, the pattern of the trade which attracted Irish merchants to England; second, the role of the Irish merchants and seamen in the trade; and third, examples of individual careers of merchants and seamen who settled in England.

Status Signaling and the Risk of Domestic Opposition: Comparing South Africa and Brazil's Hosting of the 2010 and 2014 World Cups

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janis van der Westhuizen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
The Political ◽  
World Cup ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Status Signaling ◽  
Domestic Support ◽  
First World

Abstract Whereas much of the literature on status and domestic audiences analyzes how international achievement helps shore up domestic legitimacy, analyses regarding the opposite direction—how the lack of domestic support undercuts status signaling—remain rare. Mega-events constitute a highly public and visible example of conspicuous consumption as a form of status signaling. However, in rising democracies state elites are obliged to frame the benefits of hosting a World Cup in both instrumental dimensions and expressive virtues. In Brazil, the political fallout from the economic crisis, however, made it very difficult for state elites to rely on the expressive value of Brazil's status as World Cup host to subdue domestic opposition driven by instrumental logics. In contrast, for South Africans, the 2010 World Cup not only became an “exceptional status moment” but also constituted a “nation founding moment,” which meant that the expressive significance of hosting the first World Cup in Africa mitigated similar instrumental criticism.

scholarly journals Consumer motives for purchasing counterfeit luxury products: behind the status signaling behavior using brand prominence

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 208-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pur Purwanto ◽  
Lulus Margiati ◽  
K. Kuswandi ◽  
Budi Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
Purchasing Behavior ◽  
Luxury Brand ◽  
Status Signaling ◽  
The Status ◽  
Luxury Products ◽  
Counterfeit Products ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The present study sought to describe the relationship of customer motives with counterfeit products and brand prominence and purchasing behavior in three groups/classes of consumers (patrician, parvenus and poseur) in the context of luxury brand fashion. Data were obtained from a sample consisting of 400 consumers considered eligible. There were three findings; first, for the poseur class, consumer motives for purchasing products had an effect on counterfeit products and conspicuous brand prominence, as well as purchasing behavior. Second, for the parvenus class, consumer motives for purchasing products had no significant effect on counterfeit products, but it had a significant effect on brand prominence and purchasing behavior. Third, for the patrician class, consumer motives for purchasing products had no significant effect on counterfeit products and conspicuous brand prominence, and counterfeit products and brand prominence had no significant effect on purchasing behavior.

Legal persons: the evolution of fictitious species

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
UGO PAGANO
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
The Status ◽  
Original Species ◽  
Public Bodies

Abstract:Posner considers purposeful organisations. Legal persons are fictitious non-mortal species whose evolution has played a major role in economic development. In what sense can they be said to have a purpose? Thanks to several important mutations, the status of legal persons was transferred from public bodies to business corporations. This evolutionary journey is complementary to the Coasian view, which, moving in the opposite direction, explains the firm as a centralization of market transactions. If the corporation emerged also from a process of decentralization of public attributes, some features of public legal persons, are lacking in its business mutation. Also some ways of motivating people are only available to the original species.

scholarly journals The Status-Signaling Property of Self-Esteem: The Role of Self-Reported Self-Esteem and Perceived Self-Esteem in Personality Judgments

2013 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virgil Zeigler-Hill ◽  
Avi Besser ◽  
Erin M. Myers ◽  
Ashton C. Southard ◽  
Mallory L. Malkin
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Status Signaling ◽  
The Status ◽  
Personality Judgments
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