The importance of status has its roots in our hunter gatherer past. When we as a species were evolving, your position in the social group to which you belonged, could be a matter of life and death and so evolution equipped us with brain circuits that constantly monitor our relative status.
Status is important...
The importance of status has its roots in our hunter gatherer past. When we as a species were evolving, your position in the social group to which you belonged, could be a matter of life and death and so evolution equipped us with brain circuits that constantly monitor our relative status.