Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1716-1723

  Kraus, Michael W ^a   Côté, Stéphane ^b   Keltner, Dacher ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; empathic accuracy; social class; social power; socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79953294038     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610387613     Document Type: Article

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