Presenter(s): Joshua Pearman—Psychology
Faculty Mentor(s): Bradley Hughes, Sanjay Srivastava
Session: Prerecorded Poster Presentation
In social hierarchies, people are organized based on their relative status compared to others . A person’s status is determined by the judgments of others and has two components: respect and admiration and social influence The focus of this work was to understand the relationship and effects of these components in interpersonal perceptions . We tested three hypotheses: 1) The components of status, respect/admiration and social influence, will be associated such that individuals who are perceived as having greater respect/admiration will also have higher levels of social influence; 2) Others will agree about who has status in a group (consensus), and will also agree about their own relative status in the group (self-other agreement); 3) Personality traits will predict who attains status . To test these hypotheses, we had groups of n = 4 – 6 (N = 218) complete a leaderless group decision making task and then provide ratings about the status and personality of each of the other members of the group and make decisions about who they would prefer to work with on future tasks . The preregistered analysis will use a Social Relations Model approach to account for dependencies in the data and linear regression models to test the hypotheses . We will present the results from this analysis and discuss implications of a two-component approach to status for future work .