Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition

S Fittipaldi, J Migeot, A Ibanez - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
At the very least, lower social class does not consistently improve social cognition but can
indeed harm it. Lower subjective social class has been associated with enhanced social …

The misguided veneration of averageness in clinical neuroscience: a call to value diversity over typicality

G Pluck - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Research and practice in clinical neurosciences often involve cognitive assessment.
However, this has traditionally used a nomothetic approach, comparing the performance of …

Heterogeneous factors influence social cognition across diverse settings in brain health and age-related diseases

S Fittipaldi, A Legaz, M Maito, H Hernandez… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
Aging diminishes social cognition, and changes in this capacity can indicate brain diseases.
However, the relative contribution of age, diagnosis and brain reserve to social cognition …

To risk or not: The impact of socioeconomic status on preschoolers' risky decision‐making for gains and losses

D Hoid, Z Guo, Z He, J Wu, Z Wu - Developmental Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Disparities in socioeconomic status (SES) may affect individuals' risk preferences, which
have important developmental consequences across the lifespan. Yet, previous research …

Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status

M Muskens, WE Frankenhuis, L Borghans - npj Science of Learning, 2024 - nature.com
In many countries, standardized math tests are important for achieving academic success.
Here, we examine whether content of items, the story that explains a mathematical question …

Unraveling the social hierarchy: Exploring behavioral and neural dynamics in shaping inhibitory control

S Fazel, AH Vahabie, FFT Navi… - Behavioural Brain …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inhibitory control is crucial for regulating emotions, suppressing biases, and inhibiting
inappropriate responses in social interactions. Social rank, or perceived position in the …

Addressing the Flexible Use of Cognitive Flexibility Constructs: Toward a Multifaceted Approach

SV Patil, SB Srinivas, DV Tussing… - Academy of Management …, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Many researchers have drawn on the term “cognitive flexibility” to denote the explanatory
mechanism underlying a broad array of organizational theories. However, conceptualization …

The social class test gap: A worldwide investigation of the role of academic anxiety and income inequality in standardized test score disparities.

N Claes, A Smeding, A Carré… - Journal of Educational …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
We conducted three preregistered studies using the Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data to …

Response to Fittipaldi et al.(2024).

NJ Fendinger, P Dietze, ED Knowles - 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Reply by the current authors to the comments made by Sol Fittipaldi et al.(see record 2024-
82723-002) on the original article Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social …

[PDF][PDF] Reasoning about others' minds attenuates class differences in tests of logical aptitude

N Fendinger, AG Dittmann, E Knowles - osf.io
Social-class differences in aptitude testing are often attributed to working-class deficits in
basic cognitive skills. The present work challenges prevailing deficit narratives with respect …