When Mr. Phinney was 15, Mr. Petroski learned, he had entered a prestigious model-building contest sponsored by General Motors; his prize money had helped him attend engineering school.
A 2012 UC Berkeley field study led by psychologist Paul Piff found that people driving BMWs, Mercedes, Priuses and other high-end cars were four times more likely than drivers of less prestigious models to cut off other vehicles at a busy four-way intersection, and three times more likely to cut off a pedestrian waiting to enter a crosswalk.
Combining these recent discoveries with our own results suggests that the majority of chimpanzee innovations probably never spread, in part due to the discriminatory preferences shown by chimpanzees for prestigious models.
A preference for copying these "model A" individuals would therefore be beneficial in evolutionary terms, and hence, we predict that in the absence of the stringent controls implemented in this study, the preference to copy prestigious models may be even more pronounced in the natural setting.
Born to middle-class parents in the Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1958, she achieved fame by way of a natural intelligence and bombshell looks, which took her from stints behind the counter of the local McDonald's to first prize in the Miss Pennsylvania competition – and later, the books of the prestigious Eileen Ford model agency in New York.
The idea was to create prestigious "role models" for the poorer middle-class wage-earners.
He has published 62 research articles, 55 other publications and he received the Rothamsted International Fellow 2016, prestigious IARI merit model and ICAR-biennial Team Research Award.
Mass clusters are clusters of suicides in time but not space, and have been attributed to prestige and similarity bias (preferentially copying prestigious or similar models: [19]) and the mass media [11], [23].
From the 12th century onward, their flowery style became a model of prestigious Persian prose, not only in official compositions but also in other genres.
It was first prototyped by Stanford, and then many other prestigious universities embraced the model and rolled out their own MOOC programs (e.g. EdX is a collaborative effort by Harvard, MIT and Berkeley).
