social status

'Cool' kids in middle school bully more, UCLA psychologists report
01/24/2013 - 15:32

Bullying, whether it's physical aggression or spreading rumors, boosts the social status and popularity of middle school students, according to a new UCLA psychology study that has implications for programs aimed at combatting school bullying. In addition, students already considered popular engage in these forms of bullying, the researchers found.

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Relationship Between Social Status and Wound-Healing in Wild Baboons
05/24/2012 - 11:46

Results of a study by University of Notre Dame biologist Beth Archie and colleagues from Princeton University and Duke University finds that male baboons that have a high rank within their society recover more quickly from injuries, and are less likely to become ill than other males.

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High social status makes people more trusting, study finds
09/28/2011 - 09:14

In three separate experiments, researchers found that high-status people tended to trust people more in initial encounters than did people with lower status.  One experiment showed why: high-status people rated others as more benevolent, which led them to trust more.

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Suffering of the poor may have helped societies with class structures spread across the globe, say Stanford researchers
09/26/2011 - 11:28

Arguably the worst feature of societies with class structures – the disproportionate suffering of the poor – may have been the driving force behind the spread of those stratified societies across the globe at the expense of more egalitarian societies. During hard times, a society in which the bulk of the suffering is borne by the poor can survive and expand into new territory more readily than can egalitarian societies.

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