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| Michael W KrausSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Is the association of subjective SES and self-rated health confounded by negative mood? An experimental approachMichael W Kraus
Center for Health and Community, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Psychol 32:138-45. 2013..In this research we sought to determine if negative affect confounds, or alternatively, is on the causal pathway linking SSS to self-rated health...
Social class rank, threat vigilance, and hostile reactivityMichael W Kraus
University of California, San Francisco, Health Psychology Department, 3333 California St Suite 465, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 37:1376-88. 2011..The results suggest that class affects expectations, perception, and experience of hostile emotion, particularly in situations in which lower-class individuals perceive their subordinate rank...- Social class, contextualism, and empathic accuracyMichael W Kraus
University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St, Suite 465, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Psychol Sci 21:1716-23. 2010..The implications of class-based patterns in empathic accuracy for well-being and relationship outcomes are discussed... - The local-ladder effect: social status and subjective well-beingCameron Anderson
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business, 545 Student Services Bldg 1900, Berkeley, CA 94720 1900, USA
Psychol Sci 23:764-71. 2012..Furthermore, these effects were driven by feelings of power and social acceptance. Overall, individuals' sociometric status matters more to their SWB than does their socioeconomic status... - Social class, sense of control, and social explanationMichael W Kraus
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 97:992-1004. 2009..Implications for future research on social class as well as theoretical distinctions between objective SES and subjective SES are discussed... - Having less, giving more: the influence of social class on prosocial behaviorPaul K Piff
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 99:771-84. 2010..Implications for social class, prosocial behavior, and economic inequality are discussed... - Class and compassion: socioeconomic factors predict responses to sufferingJennifer E Stellar
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Emotion 12:449-59. 2012..We discuss a potential mechanism of class-based influences on compassion, whereby lower-class individuals' are more attuned to others' distress, relative to their upper-class counterparts... - Facial-feature resemblance elicits the transference effectMichael W Kraus
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
Psychol Sci 21:518-22. 2010..The results represent the first evidence of transference processes occurring through facial-feature resemblance. Implications for research on impression formation, social cognition, and emotions are discussed... - Signs of socioeconomic status: a thin-slicing approachMichael W Kraus
Department of Psychology, University of California, 3210Tolman Hall 1650, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
Psychol Sci 20:99-106. 2009..These results have implications for understanding the effect of SES on social interactions and patterns of disengagement and engagement in other realms... - Class, chaos, and the construction of communityPaul K Piff
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 103:949-62. 2012..These findings suggest that social class shapes how people respond to perceptions of chaos and cope with its threatening consequences...