The Denigration of Heroes? How the Status Attainment Process Shapes Attributions of Considerateness and Authenticity
This article develops and tests a theory to explain the common tendency to “denigrate heroes,” whereby high-status actors are suspected of being inconsiderate and inauthentic relative to low-status counterparts. This tendency is argued to reflect two conditions typical of status attainment processes...
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University of Chicago Press
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109420 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6271-0708 |