What Are Lay Theories of Social Class?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Varnum, Michael E W ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HONESTY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; WELLBEING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880490683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070589     Document Type: Article

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