HIGH STATUS GIVES PEOPLE DELUSIONS OF APPROVAL

Research subjects who had been primed to think of themselves as having elevated status reported seeing 19% more smiles on the faces of people who had judged their work than subjects who considered themselves to have low status. That’s because a person’s status colors his or her perceptions of other’s approval. Thus it seems evident that of all the rewards for achievement__recognition, income, promotion__ the most valuable is the high-status mind-set.
-Harvard Business Review
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