Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: how the rich are different from the poor.

MW Kraus, PK Piff, R Mendoza-Denton… - Psychological …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Social class is shaped by an individual's material resources as well as perceptions of rank
vis-à-vis others in society, and in this article, we examine how class influences behavior …

Social class as culture: The convergence of resources and rank in the social realm

MW Kraus, PK Piff, D Keltner - Current directions in …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Social class reflects more than the material conditions of people's lives. Objective resources
(eg, income) shape cultural practices and behaviors that signal social class. These signals …

Social class, sense of control, and social explanation.

MW Kraus, PK Piff, D Keltner - Journal of personality and social …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Lower social class is associated with diminished resources and perceived subordinate rank.
On the basis of this analysis, the authors predicted that social class would be closely …

Class impressions: Higher social class elicits lower prosociality

NJ Van Doesum, JM Tybur, PAM Van Lange - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Social class predicts numerous important life outcomes and social orientations. To date,
literature has mainly examined how an individual's own class shapes interactions with …

The social ladder: A rank-based perspective on social class

MW Kraus, JJX Tan, MB Tannenbaum - Psychological Inquiry, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Scholars across the social sciences have studied social class for centuries. In this review,
we suggest that social class is a fundamental means by which individuals are ranked on the …

Inequality is in the air: Contextual psychosocial effects of power and social class

R Rodríguez-Bailón, Á Sánchez-Rodríguez… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Effects of social power and social class can be mechanical or contextual.•
Mechanical effects occur when inequality strengthens the relation between power/social …

A road map for an emerging psychology of social class

MW Kraus, NM Stephens - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Though the scientific study of social class is over a century old, theories regarding how
social class shapes psychological experience are in their infancy. In this review, we provide …

Status, power, and intergroup relations: The personal is the societal

ST Fiske, CH Dupree, G Nicolas… - Current opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Hierarchy, a human constant, comprises power (resources) and status
(prestige).•Rank, temporary or chronic, creates distance, agency, and deference.•Individual …

Social class and prosocial behavior: Current evidence, caveats, and questions

PK Piff, AR Robinson - Current opinion in psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Overviews social class differences in interpersonal attention and prosocial
emotion.•Reviews evidence linking lower social class to increased prosocial …

Why does social class affect subjective well-being? The role of status and power

S Yu, SL Blader - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The link between social class and subjective well-being (SWB) has been an important topic
of inquiry, with broad implications for understanding the psychology of social class and the …