Would doctors become less arrogant if they made minimim wage?
1) I have not so much experience with arrogant doctors because I generally choose my doctors among those who are not arrogant. 2) Pride has positive and negative aspects. It is a nice thing to achieve your goals in life. It is not nice to despise those who don’t. And what some people see as arrogance, can just be an expression of achievement. “A common understanding of pride is that it results from satisfaction with meeting the personal goals set by oneself; for example, Weiner et al. have posited that positive performance outcomes elicit pride in an individual when the event is appraised as having been caused by him alone. Moreover, Oveis et al. conceptualize pride as a display of the strong self that promotes feelings of similarity to strong others, as well as differentiation from weak others. Seen in this light, pride can be conceptualized as a hierarchy-enhancing emotion, as its experience and display helps rid negotiations of conflict. Pride involves exhilarated pleasure and a fee
