Collaborative Research: Creating Status Characteristics and Breaking Them Down

职务名称：合作研究：创造地位特征并打破它们PI：Murray韦伯斯特，丽莎Rashotte和艾莉森Bianchi机构：北卡罗来纳州夏洛特大学;爱荷华大学该奖项支持对一种新理论的实验测试，该理论描述了地位价值如何从地位特征传播到未评估的名义特征。研究的问题是，特征如何承载尊重、社会价值和表现技能的内涵，而不是简单的描述性术语。从理论上讲，在一定条件下，身份价值可以从现有的身份特征扩展到新的名义特征，使其从简单的描述符转变为社会价值和能力的表征。研究策略是设计和进行实验室实验，试图在第1年创建一个新的状态特征在夏洛特夏洛特，并使用互补技术来打破现有的状态特征在第2年在爱荷华州，以测试理论。 这项研究将改善理论模型，并有助于大量的实证研究的地位processes.Broader影响的这项工作将出现在学校和组织设置的应用研究人员开发的方法来控制状态创建过程中使用的技术类似于我们在实验室开发。几十年来，地位泛化理论一直被用来设计干预措施，以减少现有地位特征（如种族和性别）的有害影响;从这项工作中，我们将了解如何阻止新特征的产生，并消除其地位价值。这种方法应该非常有用，消除地位效应而不是部分克服它们，或者创造新的地位特征而不是暂时赋予一些地位优势和劣势。即使没有干预，了解地位创造的过程也可以让观察者在评估其他人时防范它。最后，这个合作项目将经验丰富的PI与年轻的PI联系起来，加强了两个机构的研究基础设施。

Title: Collaborative Research: Creating Status Characteristics and Breaking Them DownPIs: Murray Webster, Lisa Rashotte, and Alison BianchiInstitutions: University of North Carolina at Charlotte; University of IowaThis award supports experimental tests of a new theory describing how status value can spread from status characteristics to unevaluated, nominal characteristics. The research question is how characteristics come to carry connotations of esteem, social worth, and performance skills instead of being simply descriptive terms. Theoretically, under specified conditions, status value can spread from existing status characteristics to new nominal characteristics, changing them from simple descriptors to indications of social worth and ability. The research strategy is to design and conduct laboratory experiments to test the theory by attempting to create a new status characteristic in Year 1 at UNC Charlotte, and using complementary techniques to break down an existing status characteristic in Year 2 at Iowa. The research will improve the theoretical model and contribute to a large body of empirical research on status processes.Broader impacts of this work will appear in schools and organizational settings as applied researchers develop ways to control the status creation process using techniques similar to those we develop in the laboratory. For several decades, status generalization theories have been used to design interventions to reduce harmful effects of existing status characteristics such as ethnicity and gender; from this work we will understand ways to head off the creation of new characteristics, and to eliminate their status value. Such approaches should be very useful, eliminating status effects rather than partially overcoming them, or creating new status characteristics instead of temporarily conferring some status advantages and disadvantages. Even without interventions, understanding the process of status creation can allow observers to guard against it in their assessments of other individuals. Finally, this collaborative project links experienced PIs with a younger PI, strengthening the research infrastructure at both of the institutions.