Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy

By Michael W. Kraus, Stéphane Côté, Dacher Keltner. Psychology Science, 2010

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Local Ladder Effect: Social Status and Subjective (2011, methodology): “Participants were shown a ladder with 10 rungs (Kraus et al., 2010).”
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012, methodology): “Relative to lower-class individuals, upper-class individuals have been shown to be less cognizant of others (4) and worse at identifying the emotions that others feel (5).”
The Social Ladder: A Rank-Based Perspective on Social Class (2013, background): “Select evidence is suggestive of this possibility: In one experiment, adult participants were randomly assigned to think of an interaction with a person who was either at the very top or at the very bottom of society in terms of income, education, and occupation status (e.g., Kraus et al., 2010).”
A Road Map for an Emerging Psychology of Social Class (2012, background): “…themselves as lower in social class during this manipulation task performed better on a measure of empathic accuracy – in which they deciphered emotions expressed in subtle micro-expressions of the eyes – than participants who perceived themselves as higher in social class (Kraus et al., 2010).”
Americans overestimate social class mobility (2015, result): “As in prior research (Kraus et al., 2010), we sought to determine if our manipulation was successful in shifting participants' momentary perceptions of their social class rank.”
“I Am Working-Class” (2014, background): “Empirical evidence of convergent validity comes from studies that have found positive correlations between subjective and objective measures of social class (e.g., Kraus et al., 2010; Kraus et al., 2009; Ostrove et al., 2000; Ostrove & Long, 2007).”
How social class shapes thoughts and actions in organizations (2011, background): “As noted, in past research, random assignment to higher- and lower class mindset conditions influenced prosocial behavior (Piff et al., 2010, Study 2) and empathic accuracy (Kraus et al., 2010, Study 3).”