With the help of event-related potentials (ERPs), the present study manipulated social status by a time-estimation task to explore the neural mechanism of evaluator status affecting individual's emotional processing. Participants completed a time estimation task, and were told that their performance were evaluated by high and low status evaluators according to their performance on the task. The electroencephalogram data (EEG) were recorded while they watched the evaluators' facial feedback.The present study demonstrated that the effects of evaluators’ status on individuals’ neural responses to evaluators’ facial expressions exist in the P1, N2 and P3 stages. Further, the present findings extended previous studies by showing that status enhances the processing of facial expressions in both the sensory and responses stages.