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Nicholas A. Hays - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Positive Effects of Status Conflicts in Teams Where Members Perceive Status Hierarchies Differently
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2016Co-Authors: Corinne Bendersky, Nicholas A. HaysAbstract:Status conflicts, conflicts about members’ relative positions in a team’s Status Hierarchy, generally harm group performance. We integrate research on Status conflicts and social information proces...
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Status Deconstruction Theory: Status Conflict's Destabilization of Group Status Hierarchies
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010Co-Authors: Corinne Bendersky, Nicholas A. HaysAbstract:Despite strong evidence that task group Status Hierarchy instability is dysfunctional, little research has considered the processes that lead to Hierarchy instability. In this paper, we examine the destabilizing effects of dissent about the Hierarchy that is expressed as Status conflict in the contexts of groups with varying levels of consensus about the Status Hierarchy. We find that group hierarchies are least stable when there is both a high level of Status conflict and low consensus about the Status Hierarchy. We interpret this to mean that when Status conflicts are expressed in groups with high levels of consensus, other group members are motivated to defend the Hierarchy to restore normative order to the group. When Status conflicts occur in groups with low underlying consensus, however, the conflicts surface latent dissensus and encourage revision of the Status Hierarchy. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory and practice.
J. Y. Chiao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Neural Basis of Social Status Hierarchy
The Psychology of Social Status, 2014Co-Authors: Narun Pornpattananangkul, Caroline F. Zink, J. Y. ChiaoAbstract:Social Status Hierarchy represents a core dimension of interpersonal and intergroup relations across the animal kingdom. Biological mechanisms, such as neurotransmitter systems within neural networks, facilitate the perception, recognition, and expression of social dominance and submission between conspecifics during simple and complex social interactions. Neural systems of social Status Hierarchy are regulated by gene-by-environment interactions that vary across cultures, due to geographic variation in ecological pressures. Here we review the biological and cultural factors that shape social Status Hierarchy, primarily in humans. We discuss the implications of this research for understanding population disparities in health and education.
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neural basis of social Status Hierarchy across species
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2010Co-Authors: J. Y. ChiaoAbstract:Social Status Hierarchy is a ubiquitous principle of social organization across the animal kingdom. Recent findings in social neuroscience reveal distinct neural networks associated with the recognition and experience of social Hierarchy in humans, as well as modulation of these networks by personality and culture. Additionally, allelic variation in the serotonin transporter gene is associated with prevalence of social Hierarchy across species and cultures, suggesting the importance of the study of genetic factors underlying social Hierarchy. Future studies are needed to determine how genetic and environmental factors shape neural systems involved in the production and maintenance of social Hierarchy across ontogeny and phylogeny.
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neural representations of social Status Hierarchy in human inferior parietal cortex
Neuropsychologia, 2009Co-Authors: J. Y. Chiao, Tokiko Harada, Emily R Oby, Todd B Parrish, Donna J BridgeAbstract:Mental representations of social Status Hierarchy share properties with that of numbers. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that the neural representation of numerical magnitude lies within a network of regions within inferior parietal cortex. However the neural basis of social Status Hierarchy remains unknown. Using fMRI, we studied subjects while they compared social Status magnitude of people, objects and symbols, as well as numerical magnitude. Both social Status and number comparisons recruited bilateral intraparietal sulci. We also observed a semantic distance effect whereby neural activity within bilateral intraparietal sulci increased for semantically close relative to far numerical and social Status comparisons. These results demonstrate that social Status and number comparisons recruit distinct and overlapping neuronal representations within human inferior parietal cortex.
Jim Sidanius - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sacrificing Status for social harmony concealing relatively high Status identities from one s peers
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2018Co-Authors: Rachel D Arnett, Jim SidaniusAbstract:Abstract Given strong human desires to be respected and understood, we demonstrate a surprising tendency: individuals consistently conceal relatively high Status identities (sacrificing Status and authenticity) to preserve social harmony. We experimentally demonstrated that, contrary to third-party observers’ expectations (Study 1), individuals were more likely to conceal relatively high Status identities, compared to similar Status identities, from their peers (Studies 1–5). Concealment was an effort to mitigate interpersonal threats (to the self, others, and belonging; Study 3) and continued even when individuals could not be held responsible for disclosure (Study 4). We found modest evidence that relative Status still impacted concealment in settings encouraging Status Hierarchy (Study 5). Thus, individuals have a persistent discomfort with elevating their Status above others. We conclude by considering the promising implications of identifying conditions that encourage high Status individuals to prioritize social harmony, as well as caveats regarding how identity concealment may inadvertently reinforce inequality.
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Social Status and the Academic Achievement Gap: A Social Dominance Perspective
Social Psychology of Education, 2001Co-Authors: Colette Van Laar, Jim SidaniusAbstract:In this paper we sketch several mechanisms by which low social Status is transformed into low academic performance. Using the perspective of social dominance theory, we review three processes by which this transformation takes place. These processes include: (a) the effects of lower economic, cultural, and social capital; (b) the effects of personal and institutional discrimination; and (c) reactions to low social Status by members of low Status groups. It is argued that members of low Status groups engage in various protective mechanisms in response to their low social Status. Although these mechanisms have the benefit of protecting self-esteem, this benefit is purchased at a potential cost. This cost includes reduced motivation to succeed which results in lower academic achievement and subsequent reinforcement of the Status Hierarchy. We argue that future research needs to place substantially more effort into precisely understanding the numerous, and often subtle, mediating mechanisms transforming low social Status into low academic achievement.
Corinne Bendersky - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Positive Effects of Status Conflicts in Teams Where Members Perceive Status Hierarchies Differently
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2016Co-Authors: Corinne Bendersky, Nicholas A. HaysAbstract:Status conflicts, conflicts about members’ relative positions in a team’s Status Hierarchy, generally harm group performance. We integrate research on Status conflicts and social information proces...
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Status Deconstruction Theory: Status Conflict's Destabilization of Group Status Hierarchies
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010Co-Authors: Corinne Bendersky, Nicholas A. HaysAbstract:Despite strong evidence that task group Status Hierarchy instability is dysfunctional, little research has considered the processes that lead to Hierarchy instability. In this paper, we examine the destabilizing effects of dissent about the Hierarchy that is expressed as Status conflict in the contexts of groups with varying levels of consensus about the Status Hierarchy. We find that group hierarchies are least stable when there is both a high level of Status conflict and low consensus about the Status Hierarchy. We interpret this to mean that when Status conflicts are expressed in groups with high levels of consensus, other group members are motivated to defend the Hierarchy to restore normative order to the group. When Status conflicts occur in groups with low underlying consensus, however, the conflicts surface latent dissensus and encourage revision of the Status Hierarchy. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory and practice.
Philip J. Pettis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Does whom you know in the Status Hierarchy prevent or trigger health limitation? Institutional embeddedness of social capital and social cost theories in three societies.
Social science & medicine (1982), 2018Co-Authors: Lijun Song, Philip J. PettisAbstract:Abstract Does whom you know in the Status Hierarchy prevent or trigger health limitation (life disruption due to health problems)? Does that effect vary by society? To addresses these two questions, this study applies five theories and analyzes nationally representative data from three societies (the United States, urban China, and Taiwan). Social capital theory expects accessed Status (network members’ Status) to prevent health limitation, while social cost theory as proposed here asserts the opposite. The collectivistic advantage explanation anticipates social capital theory to apply more to urban China and Taiwan but social cost theory to apply more to the United States, while the collectivistic disadvantage explanation predicts the opposite. The inequality structure explanation expects social capital theory to apply more to Taiwan and social cost theory to apply more to the United States and urban China. This study measures accessed Status on the occupational dimension. Results support social capital theory in Taiwan, social cost theory in the other two societies, and the inequality structure explanation across the three societies.