{"product_id":"ranked-the-hidden-logic-of-status-9798199160674","title":"Ranked.: The hidden logic of status","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dimitri Sych\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Popular Culture - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMan is the animal that suffers not from having little - but from another having more.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery room you enter has a hierarchy. Within fifteen minutes it assembles itself - without words, without agreement, without badges. Your brain reads micro-signals: pauses, glances, laughter, who stands closest to the center. It produces a verdict: who is in charge here. This mechanism does not switch off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRanked\u003c\/b\u003e is a book about how status actually works - and why understanding it changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does your closest friend grow cold the moment you succeed? Why does the brain treat a loss of rank as physical pain? Why does confidence attract more than looks? Why does almost no argument have anything to do with the truth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on evolutionary psychology, the neuroscience of social pain, and the work of Bourdieu, Henrich, and Todorov - alongside twenty years of personal observation in caf�s, boardrooms, and private correspondence - \u003ci\u003eRanked\u003c\/i\u003e decodes the invisible game everyone plays and almost no one sees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book does not teach you to win the status game. It teaches you to see it. That is a different kind of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889784209559,"sku":"9798199160674","price":1276.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199160674.webp?v=1781177734","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ranked-the-hidden-logic-of-status-9798199160674","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}