{"id":7042,"date":"2014-05-13T18:42:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2014-05-13T18:42:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:42:31","slug":"academics-the-most-status-conscious-people-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/05\/academics-the-most-status-conscious-people-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics &#8211; the most status-conscious people in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/edge-news-highlights\">Edge<\/a> sends me an email today<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The strange thing about academics, which always fascinates me, is that they believe they&#8217;re completely immune to status considerations and consider themselves to be more or less monks. In reality, of course, academics are the most status-conscious people in the world. Take away a parking space from an academic and see how long he stays. I always find this very strange when you occasionally get in the realm of happiness research, you get fairly considerable assaults on consumerism as if it&#8217;s just mindless status seeking. Now, the point of the matter is, is that academics are just as guilty of the original crime, they just pursue status in a different way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True? True!<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.07.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edge sends me an email today The strange thing about academics, which always fascinates me, is that they believe they&#8217;re completely immune to status considerations and consider themselves to be more or less monks. In reality, of course, academics are the most status-conscious people in the world. Take away a parking space from an academic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/05\/academics-the-most-status-conscious-people-in-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academics &#8211; the most status-conscious people in the world?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[1274,2863],"class_list":["post-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-academics","tag-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7043,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}