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Americans Still Overestimate Social Class Mobility: A Pre-Registered Self-Replication
| Content Provider | PubMed Central |
|---|---|
| Author | Kraus, Michael W. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Kraus and Tan (2015) hypothesized that Americans tend to overestimate social class mobility in society, and do so because they seek to protect the self. This paper reports a pre-registered exact replication of Study 3 from this original paper and finds, consistent with the original study, that Americans substantially overestimate social class mobility, that people provide greater overestimates when made while thinking of similar others, and that high perceived social class is related to greater overestimates. The current results provide additional evidence consistent with the idea that people overestimate class mobility to protect their beliefs in the promise of equality of opportunity. Discussion considers the utility of pre-registered self-replications as one tool for encouraging replication efforts and assessing the robustness of effect sizes. |
| Related Links | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01709 |
| Starting Page | 1709 |
| File Format | |
| ISSN | 16641078 |
| e-ISSN | 16641078 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Psychology |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Frontiers Media S.A. |
| Subject Keyword | Research in Higher Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Psychology |
