Women working in organizations are frequently encouraged to cultivate connections to high-status individuals based on a prominent social...
11 months ago

Lijun Song, assistant professor of sociology, set out to discover whether knowing high-status people helped or harmed mental health, using depressive symptoms...
111 months ago

We show that high-status individuals are held to higher ethical standards in both the US and China, and that there is a strong income gradient in normatively...
16 months ago

Research has long shown that women face greater obstacles in establishing such connections compared to men.
9 months ago

Attaining a greater number of high-status positions generally increased one's well-being, but only in groups that were central or relevant to a person's...
8 months ago

"We propose that physical attractiveness determines whether heterosexual men desire or dismiss romance with high-status women. [...] Our...
57 months ago

Researchers have now shown that cooperation between individuals can be driven by opportunities to acquire status over others.
65 months ago

In a recent study, we discovered that when women form instrumental networks with higher-status colleagues, other co-workers react negatively—but...
11 months ago

University joins the ranks of just 130 institutions nationwide classified by Carnegie as “very high research activity” – or R1 – the gold...
72 months ago

The combination of high-effort coping and a high status job was related to higher BP at work in women but not in men. Initial analysis of mean...
357 months ago