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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hahl, Oliver, Zuckerman Sivan, Ezra W
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109420
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6271-0708

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