Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy

Recent research suggests that lower-class individuals favor explanations of personal and political outcomes that are oriented to features of the external environment. We extended this work by testing the hypothesis that, as a result, individuals of a lower social class are more empathically accurate...

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Published in:	Psychological science Vol. 21; no. 11; pp. 1716 - 1723
Main Authors:	Kraus, Michael W., Côté, Stéphane, Keltner, Dacher
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2010 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:	Accuracy Adult Agreeableness Class Emotional expression Emotional intelligence Emotions Empathy Facial Expression Female Hierarchy, Social Humans Interpersonal Relations Lower class Male Middle Aged Nonverbal Communication Personality psychology Role playing Social Behavior Social Class Social classes Social control Social Environment Social events Social interaction Social judgement Social Perception Social psychology Social theory Socioeconomic status Upper class Well being social power emotion socioeconomic status empathic accuracy social class
ISSN:	0956-7976, 1467-9280, 1467-9280
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