SBP: Theories of Social Status and Inequality

这个项目研究了具有身份价值的个人属性如何不再具有身份价值。 众所周知，某些与能力没有内在联系的个人属性可能具有地位价值，因此它们与人们的预期表现有关。 这个项目研究从属性中去除状态值，或“状态解构”，通过实验测试理论推导的命题。 研究结果将指出干预措施，以解除对能力的期望从分类的区别，这反过来又可能有助于公平的任务为重点的群体，提高群体的业绩。 该理论通过两个实验室实验进行了验证。这些开始通过使用建立的程序相关联的能力期望与分类的区别。然后，实施多个理论上相关的条件，以消除类别区分和能力期望之间的关联。 数据包括行为数据和问卷数据，行为数据是衡量参与者接受不同属性他人影响的程度，问卷数据评估对不同属性他人的态度。该实验的结果将评估导致状态解构的条件的理论预测。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project investigates how personal attributes with status value can cease to have status value attached to them. It is well known that certain personal attributes not intrinsically tried to competence can have status value attached to them so that they are associated with how well people are expected to perform. This project investigates the removal of status value from attributes, or "status deconstruction," by testing theoretically derived propositions through experiments. Findings will point to interventions to disassociate expectations for competence from categorical distinctions, which in turn is likely to contribute to equity in task-focused groups and improve the groups' performance. The theory is tested via two laboratory experiments. These begin by using established procedures for associating competency expectations with categorical distinctions. Then, multiple theoretically relevant conditions are implemented to remove the association between the categorical distinction and competency expectations. Data consist of both behavioral data, which are measures of the degree to which participants accept influence from others with different attributes, and questionnaire data, which assess attitudes toward others with different attributes. Results from this experiment will evaluate theoretical predictions about the conditions leading to status deconstruction.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.