Class impressions: Higher social class elicits lower prosociality

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 11-20

  Van Doesum, Niels J ^a   Tybur, Joshua M ^a   Van Lange, Paul A M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Prosocial behavior; Social class; Social mindfulness; Social value orientation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MINDFULNESS; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84973444507     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.06.001     Document Type: Article

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