One important positive aspect of the relationship between potential adversaries is the extent to which their members hold common identities.
One important positive aspect of the relationship between potential adversaries is the extent to which their members hold common identities.
The invigoration of such positive ties tends to inhibit feeling aggrieved, while their deterioration contributes to rising salience of dissatisfactions.
Second, for some people at least, being high in certain hierarchies would compensate for being low in others.
Besides the antagonistic interests arising from inequalities, possible adversaries often are interdependent and share positive bonds, interests, and identities.
On the other hand, persons ranked low on ascribed or investment dimensions and high on achieved or reward dimensions would tend to feel successful and contented, and some may even feel guilt and obligated to assist the less advantaged.
In each case it a appears that a more powerful and advantaged group is motivated by the fear of losing status.
Studies have been made to specify the effects of different kinds of rank incongruence.