Reply to Cheng et al.: Benefit generation dominates cost infliction in explaining cross-national status allocations

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712; pdurkee@utexas.edu.
² Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92831.
³ Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.

Comment

Patrick K Durkee et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021.

. 2021 Jun 1;118(22):e2105037118.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2105037118.

¹ Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712; pdurkee@utexas.edu.
² Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92831.
³ Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interest.

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