Dr. Alison Wood Brooks

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933 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 30 Oct

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Oh.

And that's why being low status feels so limiting and so constraining.

So status for scholars is defined as liking and respect and prestige in the eyes of other people.

Okay.

Okay, so it's liking.

And do people respect me?

There's really good news here, Mel.

Okay.

Which is...

Every group has a sort of status hierarchy, okay?

People pretty easily know who's high status, who's low status, who's in the middle.

But the good news is it changes much more frequently than you think.

It changes not only from one conversation or one place to the next.

it changes from one topic to the next.

So imagine you're in a group, you're having a meeting, you're talking about something you don't know anything about.

You're low status on that topic and there might be some raucous experts in the room and that's intimidating.

And you're like, how can I contribute to this?

It's a terrible feeling.

You feel invisible and marginalized.

Yep.

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