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Dec 1, 2017 · Higher-class individuals have more material resources and higher social rank than lower-class individuals, who have fewer resources and more subordinate rank in society. Greater control and freedom of choice [ 6 ], reduced vulnerability to threats [ 7 , 8 ], and an emphasis on individualism and personal accomplishment [ 9 , 10 ] promote an internal, self-oriented focus among higher-class ...
- Paul K Piff, Angela R Robinson
- 2017
Jan 28, 2022 · Although abundant research has explored the relationship between social class and prosociality, it remains controversial. This study aimed to investigate the effect of social class priming on prosociality among college students. Experiment 1 was an explicit experiment in which we employed the MacArthur scale to prime participants’ social class and then used a donation task. The results ...
Jan 19, 2022 · The first, which we call exclusivity perspectives, maintains that middle-class families use their cultural, social, and economic resources to improve their children’s sports performance so that their children reap rewards that will help them maintain their social ranking (Chin and Phillips 2004; Friedman 2013; Stempel 2005; Weininger, Lareau, and Conley 2015).
Jul 19, 2016 · Follow-up analyses revealed the importance of reputational concerns for shaping class differences in prosociality: Specifically, higher class individuals reported that pride motivated their prosocial behavior more than lower class individuals, and this association partially accounted for class-based differences in prosociality in public versus private contexts.
- Michael W. Kraus, Bennett Callaghan
- 2016
Jul 20, 2015 · One of these themes is certainly the effect of social class on prosociality. Recent social psychological research has presented evidence of a negative effect of social class on several prosocial behaviors [1 – 3]. In these studies, higher class individuals were found to be less charitable, less trusting, less generous, and less helpful than ...
- Martin Korndörfer, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
- 2015
Dec 1, 2017 · Although the extant evidence indicates that higher social class standing may tend to undermine prosocial impulses, we propose that the effects of social class on prosocial behavior may also depend on three crucial factors: motivation, identity, and inequality. We discuss how and why these factors may moderate class differences in prosociality ...
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Across four studies, we find that participants behave less prosocially (i.e., are less socially mindful) toward higher class targets relative to lower and/or middle class targets. Perceptions of similarity, warmth, and competence did not mediate lower prosociality for higher relative to lower class targets.
