The Possession of High Status Strengthens the Status Motive

Anderson, Cameron; Hildreth, John Angus D.; Sharps, Daron L.

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“… Anderson et al (2015, p. 579) briefly acknowledge that, despite the status motive's universality, individuals may differ in their status motive. They also show that having higher status reinforces the status motive(Anderson et al, 2020). Nevertheless, the motive variability considered by Anderson and colleagues is more coarse-grained than our conceptualization of what people desire in interactions.…”

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What Makes People Feel Respected? Toward an Integrative Psychology of Social Worth

Rothers¹,

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2022

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People care a great deal about their social worth in other people’s eyes and social worth is implicated as an important factor in a host of social scientific theories. At the same time, social worth phenomena are scattered across diverse literatures under different conceptual labels, with little correspondence between them. In the present article, we attempt to integrate social worth research by focusing on three core questions: (1) What is the meaning of social worth in a particular interaction or relationship? (2) How do people evaluate their social worth in the eyes of their partner? And (3) how do people react when they are credited with different forms of social worth? According to the theoretical framework we propose, the particular meaning of social worth depends on a person’s goals for an interaction, and we draw on interdependence theory to map how different situations afford the activation of different goals. To evaluate their social worth in a partner’s eyes, a person judges whether the role they are accorded by the partner satisfies their own interaction goals. This comparison can yield an affirmation, a disconfirmation, or a violation of the person’s social worth expectations. A person’s reactions to these social worth experiences can be understood as attempts to regulate the situation’s interdependence structure following the partner’s feedback. We review social worth-related research from different research areas to show the framework’s wide applicability and integrative potential.

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“…Conversely, for high-status employees, when they perceive fairness, they hide their knowledge to avoid low-status employees posing a threat to their own status. Currently, they tend to adopt the dominant-type status competition ( Anderson et al, 2020 ). Therefore, enterprises need to pay attention to the motivation of employees’ status pursuit, formulate corresponding measures to maintain the fairness in the status adjustment mechanism, and give full play to the role of status incentives ( Witkower et al, 2020 ).…”

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Status Competition and Implicit Coordination: Based on the Role of Knowledge Sharing and Psychological Safety

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Implicit coordination is an important research topic in the field of social cognition. Previous studies have studied implicit coordination behavior from the perspective of team mental model but ignored the internal mechanism of individual status competition motivation on implicit coordination behavior. Based on the differences of status competition motivation, the individual status competition motivation is divided into prestige-type and dominant-type. With knowledge sharing as the mediating variable and psychological safety as the moderating variable, this research constructed a process model of the influence of status competition motivation on implicit coordination behavior. The empirical study was carried out with a sample of 367 employees of 44 enterprises. The research results show the following findings: (1) Status competition has a differentiated impact on implicit coordination. Prestige-type status competition has a significant positive impact on implicit coordination behavior, while dominant-type status competition has a significant negative impact on implicit coordination behavior. (2) Knowledge sharing plays a mediating role between status competition (prestige-type status competition and dominant-type status competition) and implicit coordination. (3) Psychological safety positively moderates the relationship between prestige-type status competition, dominant-type status competition, and knowledge sharing. The research results provide a new perspective for the field of implicit coordination; reveal the mechanism of status competition motivation in implicit coordination, which is of great significance to the practice of enterprise team management and human resource management.

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“…Most clearly, high status individuals can be expected to have higher frequencies or average levels of pride experiences than lower status individuals. This more frequent pride may partially explain higher status individuals' relatively stronger status motive (Anderson et al, 2020). Moreover, to the extent that elevated pride levels are accompanied by more frequent or conspicuous pride displays, higher status may be associated with increased signaling of hierarchical rank to reinforce status differentials.…”

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Emotions and Status Hierarchies

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2021

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Emotions define and are defined by status hierarchies. This chapter examines human emotions in relation to hierarchy navigation. Because emotional adaptations evolve in response to selective pressures, I first present evidence supporting the ubiquity of hierarchies and the fitness-relevance of status in the ancestral past. Next, I provide a sketch of the recurrent adaptive challenges likely posed by life within hierarchically organized groups to circumscribe the hierarchy-navigation tasks emotional adaptations are expected to address. I then highlight several emotions—pride, shame, envy, admiration, respect, contempt, anger, and fear—that appear to facilitate hierarchy navigation, review the evidence for their functional design, and explore ways in which relative differences in status may modulate recurring emotional experiences. Finally, I discuss how understanding the interplay between emotions and hierarchy navigation can inform our understanding of broad individual differences.

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The Possession of High Status Strengthens the Status Motive

Cited by 22 publications

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What Makes People Feel Respected? Toward an Integrative Psychology of Social Worth

What Makes People Feel Respected? Toward an Integrative Psychology of Social Worth

Status Competition and Implicit Coordination: Based on the Role of Knowledge Sharing and Psychological Safety

Emotions and Status Hierarchies

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