A Road Map for an Emerging Psychology of Social Class

By Michael W. Kraus, Nicole M. Stephens. 2012

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Americans overestimate social class mobility (2015, methodology): “Objective and subjective social class Based on recommendations from prior research (Kraus & Stephens, 2012; Kraus et al., 2012), we assessed social class using four indices: annual income, educational attainment, occupation status, and subjective social class.”
The rich—love them or hate them? Divergent implicit and explicit attitudes toward the wealthy (2017, background): “…impacts of wealth disparities, often focusing on how individuals experience the world differently depending on their social class status and sometimes conceptualizing social classes as subcultures (Kraus, Piff, & Keltner, 2011; Kraus & Stephens, 2012; Stephens, Markus, & Phillips, 2014).”
The Social Ladder: A Rank-Based Perspective on Social Class (2013, background): “…of contrasting levels of material resources and then used measures of educational attainment (e.g., Stephens et al., 2007), annual income or economic wealth (e.g., Drentea, 2000), and occupation status (e.g., Oakes & Rossi, 2003) as indices of social class position (cf. Kraus & Stephens, 2012).”
“I Am Working-Class” (2014, background): “…2009; Jetten et al., 2008; Kraus, Côte, & Keltner, 2010; Kraus, Piff, & Keltner, 2009; Kudrna, Furnham, & Swami, 2010; Laurin, Fitzsimons, & Kay, 2011; Ostrove et al., 2000; Ostrove & Cole, 2003; for a recent review of further social psychological research in this area, see Kraus & Stephens, 2012).”
Social Class and Prosocial Behavior (2016, methodology): “We demarcated the social class of Twitter users separately based on education and annual income (Kraus & Stephens, 2012).”
How Financial Constraints Influence Consumer Behavior: An Integrative Framework (2018, background): “Consumers adapt to unfavorable social comparisons by seeing themselves as more connected to others (Piff et al., 2010) and giving more consideration to how their choices affect others (Kraus & Stephens, 2012).”