It was also found that trained women enjoyed a higher status in the family.
These findings don't show that unethical behavior is somehow ingrained in people of higher status, Piff says.
However the higher status people might have enjoyed yoghurt, cheese and honey.
Their place in Brazil's economic structure may be precarious, but they enjoy a higher status than the wide variety of people working in the informal sector.
The researchers suggest that this may be because black children pick up conflicting signals they know that they belong to the black group, but they also know that the white group has higher status.
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More directly, higher status itself protects people's health, he argues, not just by reducing their propensity to behave riskily, but also by changing their body chemistry in ways that protect them against disease.
Where supportive policy and appropriate incentives have been addressed, results have shown significant improvement, for example, the in-service teacher trainees in NTU project, teachers were given higher status and a salary boost when they accomplished their training courses.
One study suggests that people who appeared more confident achieved a higher social status than their peers.
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Regardless of the measure used, however, higher-status people tended to behave in ways that served their own self-interest.
That is, individuals raised in those countries may be reluctant to disagree with their supervisors or to speak up in meetings full of higher-status individuals.
In the early 1980s, writer Tom Wolfe predicted that Silicon Valley would usually beat Boston's Route 128 in technology showdowns because Silicon Valley culture elevated the engineer and entrepreneur to higher social status.
The court heard that the tribal assembly made the ruling to rape her in order punish the victim's family, after allegations that her brother had been involved with a woman from a higher-status tribe.
Researchers at the University of California found that over-confidence is often driven by a desire for a higher social status and that pursuit of this status often resulted in more material or career rewards.
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In the higher-status professions, women were virtually invisible.
Researchers at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, led by Joris Lammers, looked at the behavior of more than 1, 500 professionals and found that women who are higher up the corporate ladder are more likely to cheat (just as higher-status men are).
The BBB credit rating is just two notches higher than junk status.
The claustrophobic pressure to derive all of our satisfactions from our existing relationships would ease, as would our desire to climb ever higher in social status.
The research showed a higher correlation between economic status and achievement than in any other OECD country.
And thanks to a recent change universities will charge students of uncertain immigration status the much higher fees levied on foreign students.
'Student motivations, quality and status in adult higher education in China.
It is only natural to contemplate the possibility that Hasan's education and officer status, denoting his higher function, reflect on him as a sleeper terrorist.
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Given the worse health status here and given the higher level of need here, we should be spending more than other people, but are not.
Indeed, taken together, the promises included in the document would result in long-term deficits far higher than if Congress merely maintained the status quo for the next two years.
The rumored incentives include preferential status for agreeable parties, higher coupon payments should they agree to roll bonds over and the payment of collateral as a token of good faith.
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Your actively shared links, photos, and status updates probably reach much higher than 16 percent of your friends, while more inane auto-generated posts about new friendships, wall posts, and articles you read may only be seen by your closest buddies.
The more extroverted the student, the higher their peers rated their expected influence and status.
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We have no strategy today other than the status quo of greater spending, higher taxes and a growing entitlement state.
"If reports that the government is set to reject proposals for a graduate tax turn out to be true, that is good news for the UK's status as a world leader in higher education, " said Wendy Piatt, the Russell Group's director general.
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