Overview
Investigates crucial underlying psychological mechanisms of status
Contributions come from a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, anthropology and organizational science
Highlights biological and bodily manifestations of status attainment
Special methods chapter examines available research methods for measuring and experimentally manipulating social status
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Perspectives: The Nature of Social Status and Hierarchy
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Who Leads? Psychological Underpinnings of Status Attainment
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Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Consequences of Status
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How Is Status Manifested in the Body?
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Keywords
- Dominance-Prestige theory
- benefits and costs of status
- emotional underpinnings of status attainment
- evolutionary origins of hierarchy
- evolutionary origins of human status hierarchies
- hierarchy in everyday personal relationships
- hormonal mechanism and social status
- individual differences in social rank
- influential group members
- interdisciplinary exploration of social status
- organizational behavior
- personal consequences of status
- rank-attainment processes
- status and competition
- status and neuroendocrinology
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Joey T. Cheng
University of California, Berkeley
Jessica L. Tracy
University of British Columbia
Cameron Anderson
University of California, Berkeley
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Psychology of Social Status
Editors: Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, Cameron Anderson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0867-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0866-0Published: 09 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3996-1Published: 26 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-0867-7Published: 09 September 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 365
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Anthropology