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 …

identify with, individuals appreciate high social status and a group stereotype to which they have a small social distance. A … group's social status and stereotype are shaped by the (exogenous) individual attributes of its members and hence endogenous … individuals with attributes that contribute little to group status would like to join high-status groups, thereby diluting the …

Status and reputation have long been recognized as important influences in management research and recently much … strategic management studies have identified the different methods through which status and reputation are constructed. While … reputation has been linked with a history of quality, and status has been identified as an externally assigned measure of social …

Status and reputation concerns are conjectured to be important especially in markets with information asymmetries … between buyers and sellers, such as in credence goods markets. To investigate the effects of status and reputation on …-mail requests to insurance brokers asking for an appointment. We find that status nudging and, with a larger effect size, reputation …

If categorical boundaries serve to assist audiences in lumping together like organizations and separating different … ones, then does an organization’s reputation also remain similarly bounded? We conceptualize reputation as an assessment of … an actor’s ability or quality, but in the circumscribed domain of an identified category. We hypothesize that reputation …