Hierarchy

Changing Diversity and Shifting Demographics

The impact of increasing diversity and shifting demographics in America

Empathic and counter-empathic emotions shape social hierarchy based on group positionality

Here, I review two categories of emotional antecedents to hierarchy maintenance – empathic and counter-empathic emotions – which directly impact the cooperative or competitive nature of intergroup relations.

Hierarchy Enhancing Myths

Hierarchy-enhancing myths support inequality between social groups

Social Dominance Theory and Power Comparison

This chapter extends classic social comparison research to explain how people think about group-based hierarchies and how they act within them.