Preface and acknowledgments.- Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, and Cameron Anderson.- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: The Nature of Social Status and Hierarchy.- Chapter 1.Toward a unified science of hierarchy: Dominance and prestige are two fundamental pathways to human social rank Joey T. Cheng and Jessica L. Tracy.- Chapter 2. Prestige and the ongoing process of culture revision Jerome H. Barkow Chapter 3. Do status hierarchies benefit groups? A bounded functionalist account of status Cameron Anderson and Robb Willer.- Chapter 4. What's in a name? Status, power, and other forms of social hierarchy Steven L. Blader and Ya-Ru Chen.- Part II. Who Leads? Psychological Underpinnings of Status Attainment.- Chapter 5. Personality and status attainment: A Micropolitics perspective.- Cameron Anderson and Jon Cowan.- Chapter 6.The status-size hypothesis: How cues of physical size and social status influence eac
Table of ContentsFront Matter
Preface and acknowledgments
Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, and Cameron Anderson
Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: The Nature of Social Status and Hierarchy
Chapter 1. Toward a unified science of hierarchy: Dominance and prestige are two fundamental pathways to human social rank
Joey T. Cheng and Jessica L. Tracy
Chapter 2. Prestige and the ongoing process of culture revision
Jerome H. Barkow
Chapter 3. Do status hierarchies benefit groups? A bounded functionalist account of status
Cameron Anderson and Robb Willer
Chapter 4. What’s in a name? Status, power, and other forms of social hierarchy
Steven L. Blader and Ya-Ru Chen
Part II. Who Leads? Psychological Underpinnings of Status Attainment
Chapter 5. Personality and status attainment: A Micropolitics perspective
Cameron Anderson and Jon Cowan
Chapter 6. The status-size hypothesis: How cues of physical size and social status influence each other
Nancy M. Blaker and Mark van Vugt
Chapter 7. Prosocial behavior and social status
Sara Kafashan, Adam Sparks, Vladas Griskevicius, and Pat Barclay
Chapter 8. The pursuit of status: A self-presentational perspective on the quest for social value
Mark R. Leary, Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno, and Kate J. Diebels
Chapter 9. The roots and fruits of social status in small-scale human societies
Christopher von Rueden
Chapter 10. The emotional underpinnings of social status
Conor M. Steckler and Jessica L. Tracy
Part III. Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Consequences of Status
Chapter 11. Decision-making at the top: Benefits and barriers
Nathanael J. Fast and Priyanka D. Joshi
Chapter 12. Social categories create and reflect inequality: Psychological and sociological insights
Michael S. North and Susan T. Fiske
Part IV. How is Status Manifested in the Body?
Chapter 13. Hormones and hierarchies
Erik L. Knight and Pranjal H. Mehta
Chapter 14. Neural basis of social status hierarchy
Narun Pornpattananangkul, Caroline F. Zink, Joan Y. Chiao
Chapter 15. Nonverbal communication and the vertical dimension of social relations
Judith A. Hall, Ioana-Maria Latu, Dana R. Carney, Marianne Schmid Mast
Part V. Methodology
Chapter 16. The assessment of social status: A review of measures and experimental manipulations
Joey T. Cheng, Aaron C. Weidman, and Jessica L. Tracy
