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Status Games: The Invisible Psychology of Rank, Hierarchy, and Who Gets to Speak

by James Calloway
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798258825681
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 160
  • Original Price: GBP 12.56
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 164 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Communication & Social Skills

You walk into a room. Within three minutes, the room has quietly decided who gets to speak, who defers, and whose laughter arrives a beat late.

You did not vote on this order. Nobody announced it. It organized itself.

Status Games is a field guide to the hidden psychology that shapes every meeting, every dinner, every online exchange you enter. Drawing on Robert Sapolsky's three decades of field research with wild baboons, on Joseph Henrich's evolutionary distinction between dominance and prestige, on Thorstein Veblen's still-underappreciated analysis of conspicuous consumption, and on the social media data of Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt, Dr. James Calloway shows how ancient rank machinery runs through modern life at speeds the human nervous system was never designed for.

This is not a book about winning the status game. Nobody wins. It is a book about seeing the game clearly enough to play it a little more consciously, notice which reference group you are secretly measuring yourself against, and understand why one promotion never quite settles the restlessness that made you want it.

For readers of Will Storr, Robert Sapolsky, and Rob Henderson.

Book three of Dr. James Calloway: Applied Behavioral Psychology.

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