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Power and Expectations: The Neuroscience of Group Dynamics

Your Brain at Work

CHAPTER

The Relationship Between Status and Expectations

Wilkinson: We have characteristics in society that are socially valued. So it's better to be certain things than other things, he says. People act as if it's more culturally valued to be male, middle aged, white, highly educated from the upper echelons of society and so on. But we might be expecting lower status people who are perceived as lower status not to be competent when they are exactly I go to a question from Carolyn; isn't having to prove your status constantly kind of tiring? "I think one particularly sad demonstration of this was Kenneth Clark's infamous doll tests"

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