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STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?

The Next Big Idea

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Is Your Status Detection System Working in the Background?

When we're not doing well in the game of life, our bodies prepare for crisis by switching our settings. It increases inflammation, which helps the healing of any physical wounds. And unfortunately, that same inflammation has the impact of causing cancer and having really negative long term health outcomes. So it's basically a kind of crisis response, right? Like when we feel low status in our peer group,. Our bodies are preparing for possible physical violence or negative outcomes.

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