Henderson: Higher-status individuals desire power more than lower-status ones
Rob Henderson · All-In Summit: "Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols" with Rob Henderson · Oct 2, 2023 · at 8:10
Author Rob Henderson presents psychological research on status desire during a talk on luxury beliefs at the All-In Summit 2023.
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“The result was that relative to lower status individuals, higher status individuals have the strongest desire for wealth and status, so these researchers collected, ah, objective measures of status, things like, ah, socioeconomic status, level of income, occupational prestige, ah, educational attainment, and found that people who were at or near the top of these measures were the most likely to agree with statements like, it would please me to be in a position of power over others, I enjoy having influence over those around me. And similar, ah, statements involving wealth as well.”
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