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SUMMARY:Winner Take(s) All Society: The Self in Status Contests  - Dr Niro
  Sivanathan\, London School of Business
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CONTACT:Rebecca Noorderhaven
DESCRIPTION:Social standing is commonly established through winner take-al
 l arrangements-where disproportionate resources are afforded to an elite f
 ew "winners." Contests to decide who is afforded the apex of these hierarc
 hies are often fierce.  Across a set of studies\, I examine how self-threa
 t\, a by-product of actors jockeying for status\, may direct actors' effor
 ts towards nefarious behaviours\, all in the service of winning these cont
 ests.  Furthermore\, an additional set of studies further demonstrates tha
 t rising to the very top produces among its winners a sense of entitlement
 : a sense of self-deservingness that justifies all means.  Armed with this
  inflated self-view\, winners embezzled funds from the experimenter\, dece
 ived fellow participants\, and misrepresented their achievements in the se
 rvice of benefiting the self.  Together\, these studies highlight the tran
 sformative effects changes within hierarchy have on the self.
LOCATION:PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
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