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 in judging the emotions of other people. In three studies, lower-class individuals (compared with upper-class individuals) received higher scores on a test of empathic accuracy (Study 1), judged the emotions of an interaction partner more accurately (Study 2), and made more accurate inferences about emotion from static images of muscle movements in the eyes (Study 3). Moreover, the association between social class and empathic accuracy was explained by the tendency for lower-class individuals to explain social events in terms of features of the external environment.The implications of class-based patterns in empathic accuracy for well-being and relationship outcomes are discussed.
Source: “Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy” from Psychological Science
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Title | Are the poor better at reading others? |
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Author | Eric Barker |
Date | March 2, 2011 11:40 AM UTC (13 years ago) |
Blog | bakadesuyo |
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