Attitudes towards the high achiever¶
Feather. (1989). Attitudes towards the high achiever: The fall of the tall poppy. Australian Journal of Psychology.
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- Crab Mentality
- Norman Feather's empirical program in Australia (from the late 1980s) built attitude scales measuring whether people favor the fall of tall poppies, and found that individuals higher on that disposition reported more satisfaction when a high-status achiever was brought low and less when they succeeded
This sourceFeather's foundational Australian study, which built the Tall Poppy Scale and found respondents reported more satisfaction at a high achiever's fall than at an average person's failure; the correlation between the fall disposition and those reactions is consolidated in his later review.
- Norman Feather's empirical program in Australia (from the late 1980s) built attitude scales measuring whether people favor the fall of tall poppies, and found that individuals higher on that disposition reported more satisfaction when a high-status achiever was brought low and less when they succeeded
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