Status

Sizes of Food Orders Are Affected by the Need for Status

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Portion Size, Status, Supersize, Dieting, Fast Food, Food, Adam Galinsky, Eating, Understanding Behavior, Consumer Behavior, Human Behavior, Understanding Human Behavior, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Art Markman, Ph.D.

An interesting recent study suggests that the size of a portion that someone orders can be influenced by their need to enhance their status.

Read Post

Five Ways Our Need To Fit In Controls Us

Michael Taft | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Crowd Psychology, Status, Group Psychology, Social Behavior, Groupthink, Peer Pressure, Collective Hysteria, Conformity, Conformity To, Social Conformity, In Conformity, Peer Pressure Facts, Peer Pressure Teenagers, Peer Pressure Effects, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Michael Taft

As a society, we Westerners exalt individualism and self-reliance, and yet our biology moves us in other directions. Humans evolved as social animals, and we posses a number of behaviors that motivate us towards group conformity.

Read Post

Will Pay for Status

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Consumer Behavior, Discrimination, Status, Race, Consumption, Status Symbols, Social Status Symbol, Symbol for Status, Symbol of Status, New Research, Status Symbol, Explained, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Art Markman, Ph.D.

In the U.S., the outward markings of success are for sale. The value of these status symbols is particularly high for people when they are feeling that they are being discriminated against.

Read Post

8 Signs She's Not A True Friend

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Friendship, Friend, Social Climber, Status, Friend Poacher, Friendship Forums, Friendship Advice, Crowdsource, Appearances, Queen Bee, User, Women News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Not every social climber exhibits the same exact behaviors, but here are some telltale signs (crowd sourced by other posters and doctored by me) that can save us all some heartache.

Read Post

The Relationship Between Power And Infidelity

Sam Sommers | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gender Differences, Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton, Mars and Venus, Hard-Wired-for-Heirarchy, Biology, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marital Infidelity, Gender, Infidelity, John Ensign, Sex, Tiger Woods, John Edwards, Men and Women, Extramarital Affair, Cheating, Evolution, Newt Gingrich, Confidence, David Letterman, Status, Power, Psychological Science, Dateline NBC, Cheating Spouse, National Enquirer, Brain Science, Healthy Living News
Sam Sommers

What if the presumed sex difference in infidelity isn't as set-in-stone as we assume it is? What if power does predict unfaithfulness, but no more so for men than women?

Read Post

Has Coddling an Entire Generation of Children Set Them Up for Failure?

David Rock | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Esteem, Education, Mindset, Resillience, Self-Esteem, Learning, Parenting, Status, Children, Childhood, Healthy Living News
David Rock

It may be that we have failed a whole generation of children by telling them how special and great they are, and coddling them from doing anything too difficult (or dangerous).

Read Post

Illegal, But Not Alien

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Status, Illegal Immigration, Illegal Alien, Undocumented Workers, Asylum, Immigration Status, Immigration Law, Healthy Living News
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos

Juan has the intelligence, dedication, skills, commitment, and caring needed. What he doesn't have is a green card.

Read Post

Not A Problem, A Pribble

Sally Kohn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: John Edwards, Racism, Problem, Sex Tape, Definitions, Liberalism, Words, Language, Status, Elite, Pribble, Dictionary, Privilege, Healthy Living News
Sally Kohn

Some problems, a friend recently suggested, are not in fact problems at all. They are pribbles -- problems of a privileged existence.

Read Post

Visitors From The Planet Money

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Money, Economic Recession, Budget, Recession, Budgeting, Status, Wealth, Economy, Spending Money, Class, Healthy Living News
Lita Smith-Mines

The on-going exchange [...] was about the newest styles of certain designer handbags, and how the changes rendered last year's bags suitable for nothing more than make-up totes and packing accessories.

Read Post

COLUMN: Faux Frugality Serves No One

The Harvard Crimson | James K. Mcauley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harvard Daily Crimson, Harvard, Money, Privilege, Status, The Northeast, Wealth, Daily Crimson, College News

Ever wonder whether the pretty blonde girl begging for money in the Square is actually an anthropology concentrator conducting an experiment for her t...

Read Whole Story

Brand Management in China: Three Golden Rules

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Simplicity in Advertising, Chinese Consumer, Status, Colgate, Face, Haagen-Daaz, Debeers, Price Premium, Haier, China, Chinese Brands, Confucianism, Sony, Bmw, Nike, Chinese Culture, Pizza Hut, Brand Management, Nestle, Starbucks, Brands in China, Rules of Marketing, P&G, Handycam, Tcl, Changhong, World News
Tom Doctoroff

The Chinese worldview, not to mention its brandscape, is profoundly different from Western markets. Here are a few "golden rules" marketers must know before landing in the mainland.

Read Post

When Success in Business = Failure as a Human Being

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fiancial Crisis, Religion, Moral Compass, Status, Romans, Money, Narcissism, Mba, Business, Business News
Vivian Norris

Business can allow human beings to fulfill their creative potential. It can provide great benefit to society. But it can also be used to promote falsehoods which end up hurting us all in the end.

Read Post

Whom do you Have to Know to get an Editorial Obit in the New York Times?

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dog Breeders, Martha Watson Stern, New York Times, Obama, Obit, Status, Merce Cunningham, Bo, Media News
Sybil Adelman Sage

Would Merce Cunningham have felt diminished if he'd known he'd be linked in death with Martha Watson Stern, "Dog Breeder, 72," also recognized with an editorial obit in the New York Times?

Read Post

My Imitation Future Lifestyle

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Status, Money, Humor, Costumes, Online Shopping, Fake Watch, American Consumerism, Spam, Ford Ranger, Imitation Rolex, Imitation, Rolex, Fraud, Fake Rolex, Bmw, Consumerism, Branding, Style News
Jeffrey Shaffer

I need to hold off on procuring the imitation Rolex until I can augment it with an imitation BMW, imitation Armani wardrobe, and the all-important imitation second home in Telluride.

Read Post

Morning Status Update for 10/3

Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Status, Pollster, Politics News
Mark Blumenthal

Yesterday's new polls, which of course were all fielded before last night's debate, continue to show evidence of the gains made by the Obama-Biden tic...

Read Post