Superiority

"A common need in a highly competitive society is the need to be or to feel superior to others, but it may be satisfied in very different ways. A person skilful [sic] in athletics may gain his superiority by excelling in sports; a man of puny body but keen intellect may gain his feeling of superiority by scholastic excellence." (p.149)

Boring, Edwin Garrigues, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, and Harry Porter Weld. Introduction to Psychology. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1939.