Victim as a relative status

Managed care as victim or villain?

Relative status and satisfaction

This paper studies the effect of income rank on satisfaction. We hypothesize that a person’s satisfaction depends on a comparison of own rank and rank of one’s parents. Estimates using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel support the relative rank hypothesis. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.08.027 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: ...

Property and Relative Status

Property does many things-it incentivizes productive activity, facilitates exchange, forms an integral part of individual identity, and shapes communities. But property does something equally fundamental: it communicates. And perhaps the most ubiquitous and important messages that property communicates have to do with relative status, with the material world defining and reinforcing a variety o...

The Specificity of Victim Count as a Diagnostic Indicator of

Victim derogation and victim enhancement as alternate routes to system justification.

Abstract-Numerous studies have documented the potential for victim-blaming attributions to justify the status quo. Recent work suggests that complementary, victim-enhancing stereotypes may also increase support for existing social arrangements. We seek to reconcile these seemingly contradictory findings by proposing that victim derogation and victim enhancement are alternate routes to system ju...