Americans still overestimate social class mobility: A pre-registered self-replication

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Kraus, Michael W ^a  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergroup relations; Motivated cognition; Replication; Social class; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949639361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01709     Document Type: Article

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