Psychology of Social Status

Joey T. ChengUniversity of California, BerkeleyJessica L. TracyUniversity of British ColumbiaCameron AndersonUniversity of California, Berkeley

• 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.