People of a higher social class think they are better than others, even when they're not. That's according to the authors of a new study. Researchers set out to answer whether men and women of a ...

You could call it class warfare, except the warfare is on the very idea of class. For generations now, various prominent scholars have decided we’d be better off abolishing it. Back in 1939, the ...

Social class is all around us, but in higher education generally and in the field of psychology specifically, with few exceptions, we—faculty members and students alike-avoid the topic.

It's fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to ...

In a long-term study of German youth, first-generation students who attended university became slightly more risk-averse.

U.S. workers from lower-class backgrounds are 32% less likely to become managers compared to workers from higher social class backgrounds. On the other hand, students who have at least one parent ...

The findings suggest that your social class influences how much other people grab your attention, the researchers said.. More research is needed to know why the wealthy may look less often at ...

New social classes: Are you a startup star, slogger, gen 2.0 or gestater? YOU probably don’t realise it, but Australia has four distinct social classes. This is how to work out which one is yours.