Social Status Flashcards
What is social status?
Respect + Admiration = the extent to which an individual/ group is respected/ admired by others (Ridgeway & Walker, 1995; Magee & Galinsky, 2008
Deference = status causes a no. of voluntary deference a person gets from others (Henrich & Gil-White, 2001)
Who gains social status?
High social status = individuals who advance group goals:
- Committed group members (Willer, 2009)
- Self-less + generous group members (Flynn et al., 2012; Hardy & Can Vugt, 2006)
- extraverted (Anderson et al., 2001)
- Dominance (Anderson & Kilduff, 2009)
- Competence displaying (Anderson et al., 2006)
Why do we voluntary defer to people who are dominant/ coercive?
People may mistake a dominant personality for competence + excellence
How does Willer’’s study (2009) support why people voluntarily defer to dominant people?
Ps = 71 undergrads, wanted to look at how confederates would be looked at with the more status they have.
Procedure = 6-person Public Goods game w/ Ps having $5 + each player decide how much $ they contribute to public good. Contribution to public = 2x + equally shared between players. Free-riders can benefit w/out loosing their contribution.
Confederate = don’t invest a lot of money. 5 cents.
Status measured = honourable, prestigious, respected
Results = higher contribution, bestowed high status bc they were perceived as more group orientated.
How is other orientation and higher status linked?
High social status = greater other-orientation + pro-socialality
Blader et al. (2016) = perspective-taking
Flynn et al. (2006) = generosity
Willer (2009) = pursue collective interest
How does Blader (2016) support higher-status’ other-orientation?
Online research
Ps = 396 working adults from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Status manipulation, conditions = recall high/ low status + high/low power episode
Procedure = spatial perspective-taking task
What were the results of Blader (2016) supporting higher-status’ other-orientation?
High status Ps = increased levels of perspective taking
Higher power = reduced levels of perspective taking. Had a harder time to think of a time when they were in control of another person + take perspective.
What is the difference between high status and high power?
Is there a relationship between likeability and status?
No always - we can respect someone for their knowledge but we don’t like them as indvdls.
What is leadership?
Hollander (1959) = the process of influencing others in a manner than enhances their contribution to the realisation of group goals
The consequence of having high status or high power
What did Anicich (2016) show about having power w/ status?
Ps = 86 working adults
Measures:
Status = to what extent does your position at work
give you a high status in the eyes of others?
Power = how much power do you have. Can you hire/ fire people?
Interpersonal Conflict = how many disagreements do you have w/ people at work?
What were the results of Anicich (2016)?
Individuals w/ high power but no/ low status = greater relationship conflict at work
What does Galinsky et al. (2014) show about power w/ perspective-taking?
Ps = 256 undergrads assigned to pairs + randomly assigned to boss/ employee role.
Condition = perspective-taking exercise, control
Procedure = murder-mystery decision task , 15 mins = given packet + take notes before meeting w/ partner. 1P = gets more clues than the other so they need to work together
What does Galinsky et al. (2014) results show about power w/ perspective-taking?
Pairs who were perspective-taking were more successful and show the greatest improvement outcome compared to the controls.
Has applications for interventions, workplace.
What is a paternalistic leadership?
Leadership style = strong discipline +authority w/ fatherly benevolence (Farh & Cheng, 2000, p.91)
Managers = personally interested in workers’ lives + attempt to promote workers’ personal welfare
People in authority consider it an obligation to provide protection to those under their care = expect loyalty + deference