Americans Still Overestimate Social Class Mobility: A Pre-Registered Self-Replication

Kraus and Tan (2015) hypothesized that Americans tend to overestimate social class mobility in society, and do so because they seek to protect the self. This paper reports a pre-registered exact replication of Study 3 from this original paper and finds, consistent with the original study, that Ameri...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychology Vol. 6; p. 1709
Main Author: Kraus, Michael W.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 09.11.2015
Subjects:
intergroup relations
motivated cognition
Psychology
replication
Social Class
social cognition
replication
intergroup relations
social cognition
motivated cognition
social class
ISSN:1664-1078, 1664-1078
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Summary:Kraus and Tan (2015) hypothesized that Americans tend to overestimate social class mobility in society, and do so because they seek to protect the self. This paper reports a pre-registered exact replication of Study 3 from this original paper and finds, consistent with the original study, that Americans substantially overestimate social class mobility, that people provide greater overestimates when made while thinking of similar others, and that high perceived social class is related to greater overestimates. The current results provide additional evidence consistent with the idea that people overestimate class mobility to protect their beliefs in the promise of equality of opportunity. Discussion considers the utility of pre-registered self-replications as one tool for encouraging replication efforts and assessing the robustness of effect sizes.
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Reviewed by: Michael E. W. Varnum, Arizona State University, USA; Katherine S. Corker, Kenyon College, USA
This article was submitted to Personality and Social Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: M. Brent Donnellan, Texas A&M University, USA
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01709