Humans are a fundamentally social species, having evolved in groups with status hierarchies. However, research on the dimensions of individual ability has largely overlooked the domain of status. Building upon research on the individual-level benefits of accurate status perceptions, we propose that there exists an individual dispositional ability to perceive groups' informal status hierarchies, which we call status acuity, and which has important implications for group dynamics. We find support for the existence and importance of status acuity across several studies. In Studies 1a and 1b, we develop and validate a measure of status acuity, find that it is distinct from previously studied individual abilities including emotional intelligence, cognitive intelligence, and accurate learning of social networks, and find that it predicts important individual outcomes at work. In Studies 2 and 3, we examine the effects of status acuity in face-to-face groups. As predicted, groups whose members have higher status acuity experience less status conflict, which benefits performance on creative idea-generation as well as problem-solving tasks. This work extends existing research on status and group dynamics, and contributes to our understanding of the constellation of human abilities, offering a new answer to the question: "How well does this person work in groups?" (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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地位敏锐度：准确感知地位等级的能力减少了地位冲突并有利于团队绩效。

人类是一种基本的社会物种，在具有地位等级的群体中进化。然而，对个人能力维度的研究在很大程度上忽视了地位领域。基于对准确状态感知的个人层面好处的研究，我们提出存在感知群体非正式状态等级的个人倾向能力，我们称之为状态敏锐度，这对群体动态具有重要意义。我们在几项研究中找到了对状态敏锐度的存在和重要性的支持。在研究 1a 和 1b 中，我们开发并验证了状态敏锐度的衡量标准，发现它不同于之前研究的个人能力，包括情绪智力、认知智力和社交网络的准确学习，并发现它可以预测重要的个人工作成果。在研究 2 和 3 中，我们研究了面对面群体中状态敏锐度的影响。正如预测的那样，成员地位敏锐度较高的群体经历的地位冲突较少，这有利于创意产生和解决问题任务的表现。这项工作扩展了现有的关于地位和群体动力学的研究，并有助于我们理解人类能力的星座，为这个问题提供了一个新的答案：“这个人在群体中的表现如何？” （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。这有利于创意产生和解决问题任务的表现。这项工作扩展了现有的关于地位和群体动力学的研究，并有助于我们理解人类能力的星座，为这个问题提供了一个新的答案：“这个人在群体中的表现如何？” （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。这有利于创意产生和解决问题任务的表现。这项工作扩展了现有的关于地位和群体动力学的研究，并有助于我们理解人类能力的星座，为这个问题提供了一个新的答案：“这个人在群体中的表现如何？” （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。