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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"high status"”.
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Are poor people healthier in rich or poor areas?: The psychosocial effects of socioeconomic incongruity in the neighbourhood
… neighbourhood and individual socioeconomic status. It has been found that residents in high status neighbourhoods are healthier than those in low status neighbourhoods, controlling for individual status. Here it is hypothesised that such an association may not be found amongst low status …
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Client status and cooperation with audit requests
… with audit requests. I investigate (1) whether high-status clients are more cooperative towards auditors, and (2) whether this effect dissipates when auditors make more costly requests. I conduct an abstract experiment in which auditors choose how much costly assistance they request from clients …
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Succession Planning and Situational Engagement
Succession planning is the creation of a pool of high potential employees that receive specific training and developmental opportunities with the intention of promotion. There is a definite need to deepen our understanding of what implications there are from a psychological point of view for …
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Subverting value hierarchies : essays on the causes and responses to shifts in demand for authenticity
… develop theory that addresses the tendency for high-status actors to be deemed less considerate and more inauthentic than low-status actors. We argue that this tendency stems from two features of the typical status attainment process: (a) the incentive structure, through which the benefits of a …
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How social status shapes U.S. children’s beliefs about social mobility
… study examined how U.S. children’s social status—both experimentally manipulated and measured at the national level—shapes their beliefs about social mobility for themselves and their high- and low-status peers. Children (N=130; 3-8 years; 70 girls, 59 boys, 1 non-binary; 12.3% Asian, 6.9% …
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PEER GROUP SOCIALIZATION OF AGGRESSION IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE: SOCIAL STATUS, GROUP CHARACTERISTICS, AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
… impact theory suggest that a peer's social status would affect the strength of his/her influences on individuals' behavior. In this study, I investigated how social status is related to the strength of influences of peers in a group on individuals' aggression. Potential moderating effects of …
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Endorsement of Abstract Ideals versus Actual Outcomes of American Ideologies: Nuances of System Justification Theory
… theory asserts that people rationalize the status quo and perceive it as inevitable, fair, and just. Moreover, the theory claims that people sometimes uphold the system, even when doing so may pose a threat to individual and group interests. One way people appear to justify the system is …
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Three Ways Social Factors Stratify Individual Choices About Organizations
… choosing an organization is shaped by (1) the status of the organization, and (2) the attributes of the chooser. I do this with three types of chooser attributes: individual demographics, neighborhood context, and cultural values; and in two settings: choosing a hospital for cancer treatment, …
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Tough But Fair: The Moderating Effects of Target Status on the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Fairness
… investigated the moderating effect of target status on the relation between social dominance orientation and fairness in either a positively or negatively framed limited resource allocation decision. Participants were asked to read medical case files about either a high or low status patient …
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Developing the reading comprehension skills of English second language primary school teacher trainees at an Afrikaans-medium college of education
… reading development programme benefitted high-status (proficient in English) more than low-status (less proficient) EL2 students and what effects the two different programmes would exert on their reading comprehension skills a year after formal instruction in reading comprehension ceased. …
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Perception of Subtle Racism: The Role of Group Status, Legitimized Ideology, Race-Based Rejection Sensitivity, Implicit Theories of Race, and Accountability
… perspectives. The role of relative group status, legitimized ideology, race-based rejection sensitivity and implicit theories of race were examined that account for the perceptual differences on subtle racism. The process of accountability---self-critical and effortful thinking---was also …
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Social status in the early adolescent peer system in the United States and China
Youth with high social status have the potential to play an important role in socializing their peers during adolescence. Unfortunately, there has been little empirical attention to this issue, particularly outside the West. My dissertation examined the characteristics that contribute to social …
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The return to hill forts in the Dark Ages: what can this tell us about post-Roman Britain?
… These sites have been interpreted as the ‘high status’ residences of British kings and princes. This view was fuelled by the discovery of pottery sherds from imported amphorae and drinking glass, fine metalworking and possible large ‘feasting’ halls. However, this is not the only possible …
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Workplace Incivility and the Low-Status Target
… research was to discover if employees in low-status social groups (i.e., women, people of color, sexual minorities, and non-Christians) experience more incivility in the workplace compared to their high-status counterparts. Data come from four different samples of working adults: employees …
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Due Distinction: Elite Student Status Hierarchies In China
How do students sort each other into different status groups in school? Research primarily conducted in the United States conceptualizes student status hierarchies as multidimensional systems. Scholars portray multidimensional status systems as exclusionary, constructed by and in the best interests …
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The Neurobiology of Social Cognition: Role of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex
… tasks that required attending to the faces of high-status or low-status individuals. Monkeys valued the faces of high-status individuals more than low-status individuals, though they were equally likely to identity and overtly attend to faces of both social classes. This differential valuation …
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Intergroup and intragroup processing in self-stereotyping: The moderating effect of group status
The moderating effect of group status on intragroup and intergroup processing and self-stereotyping is examined. Self-stereotyping is "the perceptual interchangeability or perceptual identity of oneself and others in the same group on relevant dimensions" (Turner, 1984). The current argument is …
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An examination of classroom practices for the development of writing in English as a second language in a Malawian primary school
… the present multilingual era. English is given a high status in schools despite the fact that many more teachers and pupils speak local languages. Malawi's new language in education model stipulates that "English should be offered as a subject from Standards 1 to 3; English should be offered as …
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The Deepwater Program : a case study in organizational transformation inspired by the parallel interaction of internal and external core groups
… that points to bureaucratic politics and status dynamics as the most likely cause. In particular, the paper finds that the Coast Guard's low status (vis-à-vis other organizations within the Department of Transportation) combined with the Deepwater community's high status (vis-à-vis other …
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