Rudeness Reveals Wealth

[ColbertWatcher]

Opps, looks like I copied the actual title down wrong, my bad!

Body Language Reveals Wealth
Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer LiveScience.com – Tue Feb 10, 1:05 pm ET

Psychologists Michael Kraus and Dacher Keltner of the University of California, Berkeley, videotaped pairs of undergraduate students who were strangers to one another, during one-on-one interviews. In total, 100 undergraduate students participated.

The researchers then looked for certain gestures that indicate level of interest in the other person during one-minute slices of each conversation.

They found that students whose parents were from higher socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds engaged in more of what he called "impolite" behaviors, such as grooming, doodling and fidgeting. Lower SES students showed more "I'm interested" gestures, including laughter and raising of the eyebrows

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It comes down to our animalistic tendencies, Kraus explained. Like a peacock's tail, the seemingly snooty gestures of higher SES students indicates modern society's version of "I'm fit," and "I don't need you."

"In the animal world, conflict arises when you're battling for status. So it's adaptive for us to avoid those conflicts and tell us we know 'I'm higher status than you, so don't bother having a conflict with me,'" Kraus figures.

--http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090210/sc_livescience/bodylanguagerevealswealth">Yahoo! News

[elizfeelinggreat]

1. Sounds like you got it right

[ColbertWatcher]

2. I often prefer my headlines to the ones the GOP-controlled media comes up with. n/t

[XemaSab]

3. Your point being?

I don't know why I spend time reading articles like this when I could be swimming laps in my money bin. :eyes:



























:P

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Pfft loser.

I pay people to swim in my money bin for me.

And I pay others to watch them.

[AndyA]

12. :)

Thanks for the laugh. Hope the temp is just right in that money pool of yours! ;)

[Stevenmarc]

5. Hmmmmmph ..... (eye roll)

[FLyellowdog]

6. I think it's called "disengagement".

Just plain rude, if you ask me.

[Fuzz]

7. Wonder what happens when the behavior is presented to the person first

from someone they consider 'inferior'?

Hmmm, I have a social event on my calender coming up . . . . . ;)

[ColbertWatcher]

17. LOL! Will you be conducting your own experiments!?

If so, please give a full report and video if you can!

[ferrous wheel]

8. Unscientific psychobabble.

Sounds like something Hannity would come up with.

[Journeyman]

9. Lots of research and all they needed was to read "The Great Gatsby" . . .

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Thank you. That was perfect. n/t

[AlCzervik]

11. Bush, he is a really good example.

[Peregrine Took]

13. I noticed that years ago when I moved from a working class neighborhood

on the south side to the near north Gold Coast neighborhood.

The very first time I went shopping in the local crowded grocery store I was "excuse me" and "pardon me" all over the place as we did in my old neighborhood yet here everyone either ignored me or looked at me like I was insane.

Needless to say, I was bumped, cut off, crashed into many times without a peep from the perpetrators.

I still do it, though. Its just good manners.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. "I still do it, though. Its just good manners." True.

Which is why I corrected the headline.

[DCKit]

15. They're talking about the rotten children of wealth...

which usually fall into the second or third generation, where that money is most likely to be lost, as well.

Some of the nicest, best and most polite people I've ever met were those who made their own money. Their children, on the other hand....

[ColbertWatcher]

16. Good point and it explains Prescott's grandkids. n/t

[Greyhound]

18. I'm sure you didn't mean to imply what you did.

Prescott was one of the most vile monsters to roam the earth.

[ColbertWatcher]

19. I'm not saying he was any better. n/t

[DCKit]

20. Who said Prescott was the originator of the family wealth?

Just askin'

[ColbertWatcher]

21. That was just the first name that came to mind. n/t