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...practical conclusions here? If green products are too cheap, they might undermine the buyer's ability to signal her status - a desire built into our evolutionary psychology. Griskevicius and his colleagues recommend that companies find a way to publicize the fact that celebrities buy green products. They might also consider keeping those products at a higher price, since penniless people can't afford to indulge in status-seeking and others will pay a premium for it. We may all be selfish and petty, but there's no reason the planet can't benefit from those shortcomings...
...results: those imagining themselves buying the backpacks in public were more likely to go for the enviro backpacks, even though they weren't as nice as the luxury models. By contrast, those told to imagine buying in private tended to opt for the nongreen backpack that offered more features. "Status motives," the authors conclude, "led people to forgo luxury only when it could influence one's reputation...
...incident, Harvard police officers stood outside Smith’s room the evening of the shooting and entered her room between 2 and 3 a.m. the next morning. Lowell House Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin said they could not comment on Smith’s status yesterday. Harvard spokesperson John D. Longbrake also declined to comment. Smith was friends with Kirkland House resident Chanequa N. Campbell ’09, the other student who has been linked to the Kirkland shooting, said Campbell’s lawyer Jeffrey T. Karp. Campbell’s diploma has also...
...That outlier status is largely gone now, traded in the late 1990s for the greater benefits of legitimate recognition—what Jaeger calls “a defined place in the institution.” The key to the exchange, Jaeger says, was collaboration and understanding—the same kind of communicative sentiment that he now espouses as the union’s director...
...difficulty raising money for bricks and mortar, versus programmatic elements. And Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Tamara E. Rogers suggested in a recent interview that she intends to hold off on discussions with potential Allston donors until “the process of recalibrating the near-term status of the project is completed”—a decision slated for this fall.Another source of revenue—the annual half-percent levy on the University endowment first taken in 2002 to pay for planning initiatives, infrastructure improvements, and redevelopment of acquired property—has similarly...