Two Routes to Social Status

Joey T. Cheng

Recent Articles

Featured

Eye Gaze and Visual Attention as a Window Into Leadership and Followership: A Review of Empirical Insights and Future Directions (PDF)

Cheng, J. T., Gerpott, F. H., Benson, A. J., Bucker, B., Foulsham, T., Lansu, T. A. M., Schülke, O., & Tsuchiya, K. (in press). The Leadership Quarterly. [Supplemental Materials]

When Toughness Begets Respect: Dominant Leaders Gain Prestige and Leadership By Facilitating Intragroup Conflict Resolution (PDF)

Cheng, J. T., Dhaliwal, N. A., & Too, M. A. (2022). Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 8, 383-406. [Supplemental Materials]

Two Ways to Stay At the Top: Prestige and Dominance Are Both Viable Strategies for Gaining and Maintaining Social Rank Over Time (PDF)

McClanahan, K. J., Maner, J. K., & Cheng, J. T. (2022). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48, 1516-1528. [Supplemental Materials]

In the News

Press

Why Arrogance is Dangerously Contagious

- BBC Worklife
September 29, 2020

How a Culture of Overconfidence Can Spread in Groups, Teams, & Organizations

- Harvard Business Review
September 1, 2020

The Rise and Fall of the Dominant Leader

- Darwinian Business
April 8, 2019

Joey Awarded Achievement Award for Early Career Psychologists by American Psychological Association (APA)

- American Psychological Association
June 21, 2018

EVENTS

Upcoming Events

Force and Persuasion: How Do Humans Climb Social Hierarchies?

Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse

June 10, 2022
Toulouse, France

Force and Persuasion: How Do Humans Climb Social Hierarchies?

California State University, Northridge

Department of Psychology

February 21, 2022
Northridge, California

Force and Persuasion: How Do Humans Climb Social Hierarchies?

Leibniz ScienceCampus

Primate Cognition Group

February 17, 2022
Göttingen, Germany

Force and Persuasion: How Do Humans Climb Social Hierarchies?

York University

Department of Philosophy, Cognitive Science Speaker Series

January 19, 2022
Toronto, Canada

Bringing Intragroup Processes Back to Social Psychology

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Pre-Conference

February 10, 2021

Joey Receives the 2020 SAGE Young Scholars Award

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference Awards Ceremony

February 27, 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana

Intersexual Competition & Dominance Dynamics of Females Relative to Males Within Groups

Lorentz Center Workshop (Co-Organizer)

January 13-17, 2020
Leiden, Netherlands

The Role of Information in Complex Conflict

Santa Fe Institute Working Group

February 4-8, 2019
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Dominance and Prestige: Debates, Misunderstandings, and New Evidence

Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference

July 6, 2018
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Dominance and Prestige: Debates, Misunderstandings, and New Evidence

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference

March 3, 2018
Atlanta, Georgia