Social class, sense of control, and social explanation.

By Michael W. Kraus, Paul K. Piff, Dacher Keltner. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Class, Culture, and Cognition (2011, methodology): “This study was both a conceptual replication of previous work on social class and dispositional attribution (Kraus et al., 2009) and an extension of this work as it simultaneously examined cross-country differences in the same domain.”
Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy (2010, methodology): “, receiving a failing grade in school) in terms of external, contextual forces (Kraus et al., 2009).”
“I Am Working-Class” (2014, background): “For example, participants can be instructed to consider their social class or SES relative to others in their country or others in their university (cf., Adler & Stewart, 2007; Kraus et al., 2009).”
The power to be me: Power elevates self-concept consistency and authenticity (2011, background): “It is possible, for instance, that high-power individuals show elevated self-concept consistency because they are blissfully unaware of the social context (Kraus et al., 2009).”
Seeing the Destination AND the Path: Using Identity‐Based Motivation to Understand and Reduce Racial Disparities in Academic Achievement (2017, background): “Sense of control mediates the relationship between subjective socioeconomic status and this situated reasoning style (Kraus et al., 2009).”
The Social Ladder: A Rank-Based Perspective on Social Class (2013, background): “…the control manipulation and participants’ social class rank ratings: Lower-class individuals’ tendency to fluctuate emotion ratings based on the context was particularly likely when these individuals were manipulated to think about themselves as low in personal control (Kraus et al., 2009).”
Social Class as Culture (2011, background): “We tested whether subjective social-class rank similarly shifts patterns of explanation (Kraus et al., 2009).”
Individuals, interactions and institutions: How economic inequality affects organizations (2015, background): “The poor show lower sense of control, when compared with the rich, and are more likely to offer contextual, rather than dispositional, explanations for success (Kraus et al., 2009).”
The Local Ladder Effect: Social Status and Subjective (2011, methodology): “As in prior work (Kraus et al., 2009), we standardized household income and education and combined them to form an overall measure of SES.”