Cues of Social Status: Associations Between Attractiveness, Dominance, and Status.

ABSTRACT: Hierarchies naturally emerge in social species, and judgments of status in these hierarchies have consequences for social relationships and health. Although judgments of social status are shaped by appearance, the physical cues that inform judgments of status remain unclear. The transition to college presents an opportunity to examine judgments of social status in a newly developing social hierarchy. We examined whether appearances-as measured by raters' judgments of photographs and videos-provide information about undergraduate students' social status at their university and in society in Study 1. Exploratory analyses investigated whether associations differed by participants' sex. Eighty-one first-year undergraduate students (M_age  =  18.20, SD  =  0.50; 6

SUBMITTER: Rahal D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8982059 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature