We've all experienced defeat at some point – losing a game, a potential new job, a debate. Now, a new study has found that ...

Social stratification refers to the structured hierarchy of classes that divides people by wealth, education, power, and ...

Columnist Francesco Salamone asks students to consider how their desire for higher social status impacts their decisions. Credit: Ana Glassman You and I are playing a subtle game. It congenitally ...

How Banijay Asia stripped away dance and drama from Indian reality TV for a pure power-play experiment that became the country's most-watched show.

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Living with, relying on, or even just spending time with someone who has a narcissistic personality style can be both emotionally and physically exhausting. People who have this personality style ...

In the mist-covered hills of Ooty and the famine-ravaged villages of Bengal, they speak of ghosts. They whisper of a Zamindar’s phantom haunting a grand manor and a shape-shifting shakchunni preying ...

Few leadership positions in the U.S. government come with as many challenges as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, the massive retirement benefits agency that has run into massive ...

While definitions of masculinity run the gamut from divine to deplorable, scientists argue that all men can be categorized in one of six archetypes of masculinity. To determine this social scale, ...