The Relationship Between Social Connection and Status

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In your book, you describe some other principles which can balance this out. I mean, like for instance, connection. What's the relationship between social connection and status? Well, it's linked when you think of the concept of the status game. You know, we're a tribal animal and that's why we crave connection and status.

Sam Harris speaks with Will Storr about the role that status plays in human life and culture. They talk about the taboo around caring about status, egalitarianism, the perpetual insecurity of status, how we play multiple status games simultaneously, identity, social connection, dominance, virtue, success, status as an evolved mechanism, gossip, status and health, the consequences of humiliation, the role of social media, status and politics, conspiracy thinking, moral panics, status and philanthropy, and other topics.

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