Two studies investigate individuals' concerns about interpersonal interactions when interacting with higher- and lower-status others, and how individuals manage those concerns. Various coping strategies emerge, including hiding status differences between the self and an interaction partner, self-promoting or ingratiating, and specifically cooperating downward. Study 1 shows students' motivation to affiliate with students at both lower- and higher-status universities, by strategically concealing their higher-status identities versus lower-status identities, respectively. With status experimentally manipulated in the laboratory in Study 2, higher-status participants shift their impression-management strategies by ingratiating themselves to their lower-status interaction partners, and shift their behavior by cooperating more than lower-status participants. These studies describe concerns and behavioral consequences involved in interpersonal interactions across social status divides, in particular a tendency ...

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跨状态交互：关注和后果

两项研究调查了个人在与地位较高和地位较低的他人互动时对人际互动的关注，以及个人如何处理这些关注。各种应对策略应运而生，包括隐藏自我与互动伙伴之间的状态差异，自我促进或欣喜，特别是向下合作。研究1通过策略性地隐藏他们的高地位身份和低地位身份，分别显示了学生与低状态大学和高状态大学学生结盟的动机。在研究2的实验室中，实验性地控制了状态，较高状态的参与者通过与较低状态的交互伙伴讨好自己来转移印象管理策略，通过与地位较低的参与者进行更多的合作来改变他们的行为。这些研究描述了跨越社会地位鸿沟的人际互动所涉及的关注点和行为后果，尤其是一种趋势。