Summit
2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025
Social and Economic Resources Inform Lay Perceptions of Status
- Wicia Fang
- Vivian Zayas
Abstract
How do laypeople determine who has status? Five mixed methods studies (N=996) demonstrate that people give weight to social resources (e.g, friends), in addition to economic resources, as status cues. This has implications for how status is operationalized in research, as well as in addressing societal inequalities.
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