Cost of Dominance

Guest: Timothy W. Smith, professor of psychology at the University of Utah. His research looks at how personality and social style affect cardiovascular health There’s more than one way to climb the social ladder. You can do it aggressively—always in competition with the people you pass up. Or you can do it in what University of Utah psychologist Tim Smith calls the “warm-dominant style,” which leaves the people around you happy to see you passing them on your way up.