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Mark Leary || The Self, Identity, and Removing the Mask

The Psychology Podcast

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Relational Value and Social Status

The need for liking and the need for status are two big ways that humans have relational value to others. We primarily draw our self esteem on both sources, but there's an exception: serial killers. It's one thing to be liked and to have value as a person in a relationship; it's another thing for other people to value having you around because you give them something they want.

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