background: aging is a sensitive period of life and attention to the issues and needs is essential. to access to health care for the elderly and the prevention of chronic diseases, and reduce the incidence of infection, the first step is identifying the factors affecting the health of every community. one of the factors affecting it, is the social and religious support. thus, this study compare...

Recent discoveries have led scholars to search for behavioral mechanisms that can enforce contracts. Exploiting a pre-existing status hierarchy, we conduct a field experiment to analyze if preferences for social status can ameliorate hidden information problem. We observe that extreme status inequality often triggers trade breakdown although the analysis controls for individual characteristics,...

In real-world social interactions, social status influences responses to resource distribution. However, the way in which one's own social status interacts with another's status to influence responses to resource distribution is far from clear. In the current study, we dynamically manipulated participants' social status and then asked participants to act as recipients in the ultimatum game (UG)...

abstract: the national identity is one of the most essential components of define any person from self and play a crucial role in contemporary world equations. the nature of national identity in any society depends on its status and the constructive dimensions and consequently the nature of its status and the constructive dimensions will have different results in various societies. therefore, u...

Concerns about social status are ubiquitous during adolescence, with information about social status often conveyed in text formats. Depressed adolescents may show alterations in the functioning of neural systems supporting processing of social status information. We examined whether depressed youth exhibited altered neural activation to social status words in temporal and prefrontal cortical r...

Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between subjective social status (SSS) and objective socioeconomic status (SES) on sleep status (sleep duration and daytime sleepiness). Method: The study sample included 73 primary care patients from a free medical clinic in which low-income individuals are primarily treated. Subjective social status was measured using the MacArthu...

While coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in the United States, research in the area is lacking, especially concerning psychosocial risk factors. The purpose of this experiment was to study the effect of a known psychosocial risk factor in female monkeys, social status, and the effect of alteration of social status on coronary artery atherosclerosis. In previous experi...