At the end of the ten-minute period, stop the exercise and check your card. What status did you have? Could you tell by the way other people treated you? How did the cards change how you treated other people?

How we perceive each other’s status becomes part of the paradigm that shapes our interactions. This activity explores those differences using a deck of playing cards with high-status cards (kings, queens, jacks), low-status cards (2s through 5s), and mid-level cards (6s through 10s).