Affective Responses to Professional Dissimilarity: A Matter of Status
研究发现，当团队中高低地位成员间的地位差异明确时，高地位成员面对更多低地位同事会减少被指责无能或违反职业规范的情况，从而降低负面情绪和行为；而低地位成员面对更多高地位同事时则相反。
We argue that, when status differences between lower- and higher-status team members are well established, intergroup relations are driven by status competition among higher-status team members and collaboration among lower-status team members. Supporting these arguments, we found that higher-status team members facing higher levels of professional dissimilarity (i.e., working with higher proportions of lower-status team members) reported fewer instances in which colleagues accused them of incompetence or breached norms of professional conduct; the latter resulted in lower levels of negative emotions and negative behaviors. Lower-status team members reported higher levels of these outcomes when working with higher proportions of higher-status team members.