Status Is a Four-Letter Word: Self Versus Other Differences and Concealment of Status-Striving

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 267-275

  Kim, Hee Young ^a   Pettit, Nathan C ^b  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

self vs. other; social hierarchy; status; status striving; stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924911472     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614555030     Document Type: Article

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