Americans overestimate social class mobility

• Main Authors: KRAUS, Michael W., TAN, Jacinth J. X.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Social class; Socioeconomic status; Social cognition; Political psychology; Self-enhancement; Applied Behavior Analysis; Social Psychology; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2740; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3997/viewcontent/Americans_Overestimate_Social_Class_Mobility_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this research we examine estimates of American social class mobility—the ability to move up or down in education and income status. Across studies, overestimates of class mobility were large and particularly likely among younger participants and those higher in subjective social class—both measur...