Consider two teenagers searching for summer work. One is offered an opportunity to assist a project manager at their uncle's ...

Imagine society as a ladder with 10 rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

It is an uneasy truth of humanity that we are by nature hierarchical. Our brain is a meaning-making operation, and one of its basic procedures is to organize concepts hierarchically. Hierarchies make ...

New research has found that individuals who perceive their own social status as higher tend to be worse at perceiving the emotions of other people. The study also reported evidence that self-assessed ...

Last year, everyone had it on their desks, in their hands between classes—they wanted others to see it. Now, some of my friends are embarrassed to hold it in public. Other brands, like Lululemon, are ...