Across various projects with my collaborators in the Impression Formation Social Neuroscience Lab, I have been actively studying how we perceive social status in others and how perceived status ultimately shapes the evaluations and decisions we make about others.
Although high status is often considered a desirable quality, this may not always be the case. Different factors may moderate the value of high status along a dimension such as wealth (e.g., gender, perceiver income/education). For example, studies …
Generally, White (vs. Black) and high-status (vs. low-status) individuals are rated positively. However, implicit evaluations of simultaneously perceived race and SES remain to be considered. Across four experiments, participants completed an …