26 - Richard Wilkinson: Inequality, Health, and Positive Psychology
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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The Status Competition Is Going All the Way Up
Stas anxiety could explain contribute to aike e, excessive hoarding of resources at the top with extreme income and quality. So instead of feeling confident talking to other people, you tend to withdraw from social relationships. You don't feel confident enough to go out in the evenings or to mix socially em. And i think that leads to social isolation and depression, as i say, accompanied by feelings of low self worth. But you also get the opposite response. You know, if i'm worried about what people think of me, i might not just accept my inferiority. I might all the time be trying to make people think i'ma clever, successful a person - flaunting my exagger
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