Conventional advice on career advancement focuses too much on power and not enough on status, argues Alison Fragale, author of Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve. “Status is how ...

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If you use Instagram with any regularity, you may have noticed it lets you view when another user was last on the app. The activity status feature tells you when a person is actively using Instagram ...

What drives people seek to high social status? A common evolutionary explanation suggests men do so because, in the past, they were able to leverage their social position into producing more children ...

To see and view someone's WhatsApp status, go to the WhatsApp mobile app and tap on the Updates tab. If any of your contacts have made a recent status update, it will appear here. Just tap on it to ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The reason why some people will pay $14,000 for a handbag just might come down to the difference between wealth and status. "Wealth is often ...

Discord, the current king of chat room apps, has seen an explosion of users over the last few years. But being new to Discord means learning a new language, whether that includes getting used to ...

In his 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class, the economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen wrote that “conspicuous abstention from labor … becomes the conventional mark of superior pecuniary ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...