social status

Item features affect how well people can predict self-reported personality traces of strangers

Previous work suggests that self–other agreement in personality judgment is lower for evaluative than for neutral items. We tested whether this pattern generalizes to judgments collected with Who Knows, a mobile app in which users watch brief video …

Receiving applause "from the right": Punishing freeriders is socially rewarded by those high in right-wing authoritarianism

Most social groups punish freeriders (i.e., individuals who receive the same benefits from the group as others, despite contributing less to its success). In small groups, individual group members (rather than established authorities) typically …

Can other-derogation be beneficial? Seeing others as low in agency can lead to an agentic reputation in newly formed face-to-face groups

Whenever groups form, members readily and intuitively judge each other’s agentic characteristics (e.g., self-confidence or assertiveness). We tested the hypothesis that perceiving others as low in these characteristics triggers agentic interpersonal …