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Feb 28, 2018 · This ‘selfishness’ account of the social class effect on prosocial behaviour is supported by another series of studies reported by Piff, Stancato, Côté, Mendoza-Denton, and Keltner , who found that, relative to lower-class individuals, higher-class people were more likely to show unethical decision-making tendencies, to take valued goods ...
- Antony S. R. Manstead
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- 2018
- 28 February 2018
- Class: A Form of Culture?
- How Class Influences Everyday Thoughts and Behaviours
- Understanding Cultural Context
- Implications of Class-Based Differences
In some ways, class is a form of culture: people from different class backgrounds grow up in environments with particular norms and values, and this shapes their behaviour and sense of identity. For instance, note Michael W. Kraus and colleagues in their 2019 book chapter Social class as culture, for working class individuals the ‘self’ tends to be...
Our ways of viewing the self and the wider of world are of course influenced by all kinds of other individual differences too, and no social class is a homogenous group of people. Nevertheless, in the past couple of decades studies have shown that these overall class-based differences do manifest in our day-to-day psychological processes and behavi...
There are plenty more examples of how class can influence psychological processes. But there’s an important caveat: the vast majority of this work has been carried out in Western countries, particularly the United States, so the findings may not necessarily apply elsewhere. As Yuri Miyamoto from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues no...
Cultural considerations notwithstanding, why do class-based differences in the way we think and behave matter? For one, they may end up reinforcing existing class-based inequalities. Take the paper on overconfidence, for instance. The researchers found that the (unjustified) sense of confidence displayed by people from a relatively high social clas...
Feb 1, 2024 · In exploring why social class can impact mental health and wellbeing (i.e., mediators), we found some evidence that subjective socioeconomic factors (e.g., subjective social status), sense of control, and social capital mediated the relationship between indices of social stratification and mental health and wellbeing. We also found some evidence to suggest those with lower social positions ...
Feb 1, 2015 · In a 2012 paper in Psychological Review, Kraus, Piff, University of California, Berkeley, psychology professor Dacher Keltner, PhD, and colleagues posit that social class — which they define as "a social context that individuals inhabit in enduring and pervasive ways over time" — is a fundamental lens through which we see ourselves and others. Because lower ranking people have fewer ...
In other words, social class differences in identity, cognition, feelings, and behaviour make it less likely that working-class individuals can benefit from educational and occupational opportunities to improve their material circumstances. This means that redistributive policies are needed to break the cycle of deprivation that limits ...
- Antony S. R. Manstead
- 2018
Oct 2, 2017 · Below I organize the social psychological literature on social class in terms of the impact of class on three types of outcome: thought, encompassing social cognition and attitudes; emotion, with a focus on moral emotions and prosocial behaviour; and behaviour in high-prestige educational and workplace settings.
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Jan 22, 2024 · Crucially, these questions must be considered while accounting for social class intersection with gender and race. Here, we explored how various stereotypes affect impressions of social class, testing the roles of (1) faces’ race and gender and (2) specific facial cues with links to social class stereotypes related to wellbeing and health.
