scholarly journals Dominance is necessary to explain human status hierarchies - Extended online version and supplemental

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey Cheng ◽  
Jessica Tracy ◽  
Joseph Henrich
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Statistical Problem ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Extended Version ◽  
Subjective Beliefs ◽  
Real People ◽  
Perceived Social Status ◽  
Empirical Record

Durkee et al. (2020) conducted a cross-cultural investigation of people’s beliefs about how traits, behaviors, and practices that enhance an individual’s perceived ability to generate benefits (prestige) or inflict costs (dominance) promote perceived social status in humans. In this online extended version of our letter, we (a) identify multicollinearity in the authors’ statistical analyses and explain how this statistical problem renders their results inconclusive as to how benefit-delivery and cost-infliction contribute to status allocation; (b) outline flaws in the authors’ operationalization and measures of social status, and discuss how they bias results toward benefit-delivery and underestimate any effect of cost-infliction; and (c) discuss a broader problem with the critical assumption underlying Durkee et al.’s approach: people’s subjective beliefs about what determines status do not serve as sufficient evidence for determining how status asymmetries are actually established in real life. Together, these three major issues severely undermine the authors’ conclusion that there is little evidence for dominance. In closing, we briefly survey the broader empirical record on actual status relations among real people (rather than people’s beliefs about what leads to status), conducted both in the lab and in naturalistic settings; these studies consistently yield opposite conclusions to Durkee et al. and demonstrate that both prestige and dominance govern human status hierarchies.

scholarly journals Dominance is necessary to explain human status hierarchies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey Cheng ◽  
Jessica Tracy ◽  
Joseph Henrich
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Statistical Problem ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Extended Version ◽  
Subjective Beliefs ◽  
Real People ◽  
Perceived Social Status ◽  
Empirical Record

Durkee et al. (2020) conducted a cross-cultural investigation of people’s beliefs about how traits, behaviors, and practices that enhance an individual’s perceived ability to generate benefits (prestige) or inflict costs (dominance) promote perceived social status in humans. In this letter (also see online extended version), we (a) identify multicollinearity in the authors’ statistical analyses and explain how this statistical problem renders their results inconclusive as to how benefit-delivery and cost-infliction contribute to status allocation; (b) outline flaws in the authors’ operationalization and measures of social status, and discuss how they bias results toward benefit-delivery and underestimate any effect of cost-infliction; and (c) discuss a broader problem with the critical assumption underlying Durkee et al.’s approach: people’s subjective beliefs about what determines status do not serve as sufficient evidence for determining how status asymmetries are actually established in real life. Together, these three major issues severely undermine the authors’ conclusion that there is little evidence for dominance. In closing, we briefly survey the broader empirical record on actual status relations among real people (rather than people’s beliefs about what leads to status), conducted both in the lab and in naturalistic settings; these studies consistently yield opposite conclusions to Durkee et al. and demonstrate that both prestige and dominance govern human status hierarchies.

scholarly journals Dominance is necessary to explain human status hierarchies [exposition of three concerns]

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey T. Cheng ◽  
Jessica Tracy ◽  
Joseph Henrich
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Statistical Problem ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Subjective Beliefs ◽  
Real People ◽  
Perceived Social Status ◽  
Empirical Record

Durkee et al. (2020) conducted a cross-cultural investigation of people’s beliefs about how traits, behaviors, and practices that enhance an individual’s perceived ability to generate benefits (prestige) or inflict costs (dominance) promote perceived social status in humans. In this document, we (a) identify multicollinearity in the authors’ statistical analyses and explain how this statistical problem renders their results inconclusive as to how benefit-delivery and cost-infliction contribute to status allocation; (b) outline flaws in the authors’ operationalization and measures of social status, and discuss how they bias results toward benefit-delivery and underestimate any effect of cost-infliction; and (c) discuss a broader problem with the critical assumption underlying Durkee et al.’s approach: people’s subjective beliefs about what determines status do not serve as sufficient evidence for determining how status asymmetries are actually established in real life. Together, these three major issues severely undermine the authors’ conclusion that there is little evidence for dominance. In closing, we briefly survey the broader empirical record on actual status relations among real people (rather than people’s beliefs about what leads to status), conducted both in the lab and in naturalistic settings; these studies consistently yield opposite conclusions to Durkee et al. and demonstrate that both prestige and dominance govern human status hierarchies.

scholarly journals Dominance is necessary to explain human status hierarchies - Extended online version and supplemental

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey T. Cheng ◽  
Jessica Tracy ◽  
Joseph Henrich
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Statistical Problem ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Online Version ◽  
Extended Version ◽  
Perceived Ability ◽  
Real People ◽  
Perceived Social Status ◽  
Empirical Record

Durkee et al. (2020) conducted a cross-cultural investigation of people’s beliefs about how traits, behaviors, and practices that enhance an individual’s perceived ability to generate benefits (prestige) or inflict costs (dominance) promote perceived social status in humans. In this online extended version of our letter, we identify multicollinearity in the authors’ statistical analyses and explain how this statistical problem renders their results inconclusive as to how benefit-delivery and cost-infliction contribute to status allocation. Moreover, we briefly survey the broader empirical record on actual status relations among real people (rather than people’s beliefs about what leads to status), conducted both in the lab and in naturalistic settings; these studies consistently yield opposite conclusions to Durkee et al. and demonstrate that both prestige and dominance govern human status hierarchies.

A lasting sting: Examining the short-term and long-term effects of real-life group rejection

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1109-1124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie L. Martin ◽  
Laura Smart Richman ◽  
Mark R. Leary
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Long Term Changes ◽  
Perceived Social Status ◽  
The Impact

Although many studies have examined the short-term effects of rejection in laboratory settings, few have investigated the impact of rejection over time or in real-world contexts. The university sorority recruitment process offers a unique opportunity to address these shortcomings. Women participating in sorority recruitment were surveyed directly before recruitment, directly after recruitment, and 3 months later. Rejected women experienced decreases in all indicators of well-being directly after recruitment and did not return to baseline on depressive symptoms, positive mental health, satisfaction with life, perceived belonging, or perceived social status 3 months later. Accepted women showed no long-term changes in well-being, with the exception that happiness and perceived social status increased from baseline. A comparison group of women who did not participate in sorority recruitment showed no significant long-term changes in well-being. Perceived belonging, but not social status, significantly mediated the long-term emotional effects of rejection. These results document that rejection experiences can have long-lasting effects.

Ethnic Stereotypes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Minority Students’ Perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042110158
Author(s):  
Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Ethnic Stereotypes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Central Highlands ◽  
Perceived Social Status ◽  
Minority People

This study examines ethnic stereotypes toward majority and minority people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It contributes a more multidimensional perspective on ethnic stereotypes by exploring minority students’ perspectives on how their ethnic group stereotypes Kinh majority people and how they are being stereotyped by the Kinh. Status and solidarity are used as the theoretical lens to gain insights into different stereotype traits and the social meanings underlying the stereotypes. Interviews with eight students in a college in the Central Highlands, which were carried out in 2013, are the main data source. Findings reveal that the students highly appreciated Kinh people’s status-related traits and minority people’s solidarity-related traits. The stereotypes functioned as maintaining the social status quo – where the Kinh justified their position and advantages, while the minorities tended to accept the perceived social status hierarchies. Implications for diminishing negative stereotypes, improving minorities’ existing status, fostering trust-based cross-ethnic contact, and inspiring mutual respect among people of all ethnicities, are hence suggested.

scholarly journals Perceived Social Status and Suicidal Ideation in Maltreated Children and Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelli L. Dickerson ◽  
Helen M. Milojevich ◽  
Jodi A. Quas
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Lower Risk ◽  
Developmental Patterns ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Established Risk Factor ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Perceived Social Status

AbstractRecent decades have seen an alarming increase in rates of suicide among young people, including children and adolescents (“youth”). Although child maltreatment constitutes a well-established risk factor for suicidal ideation in youth, few efforts have focused on identifying factors associated with maltreated youths’ increased risk for suicidal ideation, especially across development. The present study examined the relations between maltreated youths' (N = 279, M = 12.06 years, 52% female, 53% Latinx) perceptions of their social status and suicidal ideation and compared those relations between pre-adolescents and adolescents. Findings revealed unique developmental patterns: Perceived social status was associated with suicidal ideation, but only in adolescents, who showed greater risk for suicidal ideation if they viewed themselves as lower ranked in society and lower risk for suicidal ideation if they viewed themselves as higher ranked in society. Findings have implications for scientific and practical efforts aimed at better understanding and preventing suicide in a high-risk developmental population.

Self-Perceived Social Status and Health in Older Hong Kong Chinese Women Compared with Men

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Woo ◽  
H. Lynn ◽  
J. Leung ◽  
S. Y. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Hong Kong Chinese ◽  
Perceived Social Status

scholarly journals Postcolonial Literature and World Englishes: A Corpus-Based Approach of Modes of Representation of the Non-Standard in Writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Percillier ◽  
Catherine Paulin
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Linguistic Means

The present study investigates the representation of non-standardised varieties of English in literary prose texts. This is achieved by creating and annotating a corpus of literary texts from Scotland, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. The analysis addresses two major topics. Firstly, the extent of representation reveals clearly distinct feature profiles across regions, coupled with varying feature densities. Feature profiles are also relevant to individual characters, as certain traits such as social status, ethnicity, or age can be signalled by linguistic means. The second topic, accuracy of representation, compares the features observed in literary texts with descriptions of the actual varieties, and suggests that representations of varieties may differ from their real-life models in the sense that highly frequent features may be absent from texts, while less frequent but more emblematic ones, or even invented ones, may be used by authors to render a variety of English in their texts.

scholarly journals Perceived Social status and its organizational, managerial and political predictors among faculty members

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (40) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
حمید خانی پور ◽  
محمد نقی فراهانی ◽  
رضا عظیمی
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Perceived Social Status

A Hybrid Style of E-Learning in MBA Education across Borders

2012 ◽  
pp. 1604-1620
Author(s):  
Caroline Benton ◽  
Rémy Magnier-Watanabe ◽  
Harald Herrig ◽  
Olivier Aba
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Asynchronous Instruction ◽  
Student Profiles ◽  
Working Together ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Face To Face Instruction

This paper outlines a real-life example of a course taught jointly by the MBA-IB program at the University of Tsukuba in Tokyo, Japan and the Master in Management program (ESC) at the Grenoble Ecole de Management in Grenoble, France using a hybrid style of e-learning that was aimed at increasing communication and collaboration among instructors and students. The qualitative analysis of this experience found that the variables that most significantly affected the development and outcome of the course were the unique goals, resources and student profiles of each university, the blending of synchronous and asynchronous instruction, the exchange of instructors to promote face-to-face instruction, and the use of a didactic and experiential approach to cross-cultural learning. Such cross-cultural course connecting distant groups working together toward the resolution of a common problem can become a stepping stone toward the promotion of sustainable development.

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