salient stimuli. In many cases, we partake in the process of "lumping" and "splitting," where similar items are lumped … together, while dissimilar items are split apart in an exaggerated manner. To test whether or not lumping and splitting plays a …Categorization is essential to everyday cognition, aiding in the organization and comprehension of information and …

are worse off. I present a new solution to the collective action problem based on status. I argue that contributions to … collective action increase an individual’s status in the group because contributions create perceptions of high group …-person public goods game, participants reported viewing higher contributors as more group motivated and higher status. Higher …

platforms, but none of the common models include status as either a primary or a moderating variable. This is a significant gap … in the literature because status is a structural enabler and inhibitor that determines acceptable and unacceptable … and universities, the authors demonstrate the following: (1) middle-status institutions had a higher likelihood of …

status competition (e.g. Hopkins and Kornienko, 2004) since the number of within-group peers who possess a similar income …