A5001808070- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
New York University
2013-2024
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2022
Brigham Young University
2018
Cornell University
2009-2017
Rider University
2017
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2010
Johnson University
2010
Differences in rank are a ubiquitous feature of social life. Moving beyond the traditional static view hierarchy, five studies spanning multiple contexts examined how intertemporal changes influenced people's status judgments. When final was held constant, people, products, and institutions were judged as higher when they had arrived at this position by ascending, rather than descending, hierarchy; moreover, these judgments affected downstream pricing recommendations, willingness to pay for...
Conspicuous consumption and its accompanying debt played a critical role in crippling global financial markets 2008. Although confluence of factors contribute to hyper-consumerism, the authors explore potential two psychological forces—the desire combat self-threats through compensatory relatively pain-free experience consuming on credit—that may have interactively contributed pernicious cycle debt. Consistent with their predictions, find that self-threat sways individuals consume credit...
This paper examines the role of status distance (i.e., magnitude differences between coworkers) in understanding interpersonal helping organizations. Results from an experiment and a field study show curvilinear relationship helping, with less help provided to those at relatively small large distances oneself, more offered moderate distances. Although prior work on has primarily considered ordinally rank ordering individuals), or terms direction whether someone is higher lower status),...
Academics have lamented that practitioners do not always adopt scientific evidence in practice, yet while academics preach evidence-based management (EBM), they practice it. This paper extends prior literature on difficulties to engage EBM with insights from behavioral integrity (i.e., the study of what makes individuals and collectives walk their talk). We focus leader development, widely used but often critiqued for lacking evidence. Analyzing 60 interviews academic directors leadership...
To those with high status, abundance is granted. Moving beyond the multitude of objective benefits, authors explore how once conferred, colors perceptual world people inhabit. In four experiments, participants’ status state influenced their judgments status-relevant features in environment. Participants a reported hearing applause (Experiment 1) and seeing facial expressions 2), reaction to performance, as louder more favorable. addition, expectations others will respond—expectations...
The notion that striving for status is a fundamental human motivation largely taken-for-granted assumption across number of literatures (e.g., anthropology, economics, evolutionary and social psychology, management, marketing, sociology). In six studies, we show that—despite the ubiquity status-striving in everyday life—people are reluctant to admit such behavior. Specifically, participants consistently reported they strive less than others, this discrepancy was partially reduced only among...
To examine the primary risk factor for oral cancer in US, smoking and tobacco use, among specific US states that experienced short-term increases incidence mortality.Population-based data on morbidity mortality were obtained from National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results (SEER) database analysis of recent trends. Data also Centers Disease Control Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to measure current former trends usage....
Jockeying and competing for higher status is an inherent feature of rank-ordered hierarchies. Despite theoretically acknowledging rank changes within hierarchies, the extant literature has ignored role competitors’ dynamic movements on a focal actor’s resulting behavior. By using lens to examine these movement in competitive situations, we how positive change competitor’s rank—that is, momentum—affects psychology performance. We consider real-world contexts 5.2 million observations chess...
Abstract Consumption decisions are inherently rooted in both what to consume and forgo. Although prior research has focused on consumption, we instead examine compels consumers steer clear of particular goods. In two studies, demonstrated that individuals experiencing self‐threat avoid low‐status goods prevent further damage their self‐worth. Individuals facing showed a decreased willingness buy (Study 1), correspondingly greater sell 2) goods, as compared with nonthreatened individuals....
This research examines how an individual’s place in the status hierarchy affects their willingness to expend effort on group tasks, why this occurs, and a contingency governing relationship. Among firefighter teams (Study 1), MBA student workgroups 2), undergraduates laboratory 3), we find that relationship between effort, through performance expectations, is contingent perceived visibility of one’s efforts (i.e., task visibility). When high, greater leads higher expectations. low or absent,...
We investigate how higher-ranking organizational members can protect their legitimacy after status loss. theorize that loss, internal stakeholders will scrutinize the behavior of to determine whether they are still deserving high-ranking position (i.e., legitimate) and those who display self-control (e.g., persistence, poise, restraint) loss signal scrutinizing stakeholders. In a laboratory experiment (Study 1), we found leaders displayed higher (versus lower) were judged as more legitimate...
When can status peers—group members at the same level whose relationship often be characterized by competition and rivalry—experience more harmony than discord? In current article, we focus on different behavioral styles as joint predictors of interaction among peers. Specifically, posit find that group members’ responses to varying exhibited their peers shape important outcomes (i.e., desire continue working together influence accepted from peer), with greatest sensitivity peer behaviors...
This paper examines how group identification influences individuals’ judgments of the in-group’s status. Across four studies, using multiple manipulations and measurements status, we demonstrate that increased with one’s positively Moreover, find confirmatory support for our prediction this relationship is mediated by collective self-esteem. Implications research social identity theory both intragroup intergroup status perceptions are discussed.
Any single competition is rarely a “one-off” event, and instead often part of larger sequence related competitions. Thus, we contend that, in order to better understand people’s competitive...
COVID-19 has been characterized by unprecedented levels of public gratitude to some, but not all, essential workers. In this research, we integrate insights from the stigmatized occupations and literature build theory on positive negative relationships between such displays workers' recovery activities. We argue that felt positively relates adaptive activities (e.g., exercise) negatively maladaptive overdrinking). further explain how impacts (mal)adaptive through (a) invisibility (b)...