Comment on Selfishness Signals Status

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:27:22 GMT

I'm not sure what "taking your actions at face value" means.

That was meant as a contrast to analyzing for signaling motivation.

people have a mental subsystem to make inferences about one another's statuses

Are you saying that actual people, not consciously concerned with the other's signaling motivations, assign low status to people who stand up straight? I don't think that actually happens.

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