The General Mechanism of Status: The Impact of Perceptual and Knowledge-Based Social Status on Selective Attention
Yunfei Gao, Sicen Zhou, Jingjing Zhao, Yonghui Wang · 2026
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Yunfei Gao and three co-authors tested in 2026 how social status steers the eye's first choices. Status can be read from looks, such as clothing, or from facts, such as a short biography, and both may grab attention early. The team used a two-rectangle attention task with status cues added, at three cue timings.
Both cue types bent object-based attention, though in their own patterns across time. The work shows status reaches down into the earliest stage of picking what to notice, not just later judgment. That early pull helps explain how rank shapes daily encounters before thought begins.
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| CREATOR | Yunfei Gao, Sicen Zhou, Jingjing Zhao, Yonghui Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |