Social status is hard-wired into our brains: Leaders and followers show differences in brain activity which could help explain why low ranking people tend to be more sick, and die sooner, than high rankers. The discovery that class and hierarchy is built into the brain chimes with a famous sketch on The Frost Report in the sixties in which John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett showed how the upper, middle and lower classes “know their place.” [Telegraph]
For the Brain, Cash Is Good, Status Is Better: New research shows for the first time that we process cash and social values in the same part of our brain (the striatum)—and likely weigh them against one another when making decisions. So what’s more important—money or social standing? It might be the latter, according to two new studies published in the journal Neuron. [Scientific American]
The Perfect Trap: Perfectionism can lead to physical and emotional stress. A guide to giving up the unattainable. [Psychology Today]
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