Preference for Similarity in Higher and Lower Status Others
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 7 (3) , 504-508
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616728173021
Abstract
In interactions between lower and higher status individuals, higher status subjects preferred lower status others who had dissimilar patterns of performance, while lower status subjects preferred higher status others who had similar patterns of performance.Keywords
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