http://blog.webfoot.com/2004/05/30/status-and-emotions/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:52:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.webfoot.com/2004/05/30/status-and-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Best Webfoot Forward » High status people do good things Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:33:15 +0000 http://www.webfoot.com/blog/2006/12/15/status-and-emotions/#comment-18 [...] am not at all surprised.  As I have blogged before, Larissa Tieden’s research shows that people think that high-status people do good things and [...] [...] am not at all surprised.  As I have blogged before, Larissa Tieden’s research shows that people think that high-status people do good things and [...]

]]> http://blog.webfoot.com/2004/05/30/status-and-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Best Webfoot Forward » Canadian bureaucracy Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:02:02 +0000 http://www.webfoot.com/blog/2006/12/15/status-and-emotions/#comment-17 [...] This is probably due in part to a much smaller population, meaning fewer levels of bureaucracy. I suspect that it’s also due to smaller socioeconomic stratification. As Larissa Tieden’s research explains, humans think that low-status people do bad things. This means that if there are fewer low-status people dealing with the bureaucracy, then there will be less suspicion about them trying to “take advantage of the system”. [...] [...] This is probably due in part to a much smaller population, meaning fewer levels of bureaucracy. I suspect that it’s also due to smaller socioeconomic stratification. As Larissa Tieden’s research explains, humans think that low-status people do bad things. This means that if there are fewer low-status people dealing with the bureaucracy, then there will be less suspicion about them trying to “take advantage of the system”. [...]

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