Social hierarchies are everywhere—think of high school dramas, where the athletes are portrayed as the most popular, or large companies, where the CEO makes the important decisions. Such hierarchies ...

Researchers have shown that mice use chemical cues, including odors, to detect the social rank of an unfamiliar mouse and compare it to their own, using this information to determine their behavior.

Editor: In our American society, people are ranked in a hierarchy in which those with certain identities are valued more than others. For people in higher-status categories, their lives are worth more ...

The Sigma Kappa sorority house (left) and the John Nakamura House (one of Ann Arbor sixteen cooperative houses) Monday, November 14. Jeremy Weine/Daily. Buy this photo. Standing in the late afternoon ...

What do social climbers and gossipmongers have in common? My mother would tell me that both are morally suspect. This moral umbrage is etched into lessons from fairy tales and scripture that we ...