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Opposing effects of objective and subjective social status on prosociality : theory and quasi-experiment
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Tutić, Andreas and Liebe, Ulf (2021) Opposing effects of objective and subjective social status on prosociality : theory and quasi-experiment. In: Krumpal, I. and Raub, W. and Tutić, A., (eds.) Rationality in Social Science. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 221-244. ISBN 9783658335359
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33536-6_11
Abstract
Previous research in sociology, social psychology and economics on the question if and to what extent social status groups differ in prosocial behavior provides only inconclusive and contradictory evidence. While some studies find a negative relationship between social status and prosociality, others find a positive one. We propose a formal model and predict that (1) objective social status is positively correlated with prosociality and (2) subjective social status is negatively correlated with prosociality, given statistical control of objective status. These hypotheses are put to an empirical test using data from a quasi-experiment with over 600 ninth-graders from Germany. The data include measures of objective and subjective social status. Our findings support both hypotheses and provide direct evidence for a self-enhancing bias in subjective social status. We therefore contribute to explaining the inconclusive findings of subsequent research on the status-prosociality nexus.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Publisher: | Springer VS | ||||
Place of Publication: | Wiesbaden | ||||
ISBN: | 9783658335359 | ||||
Book Title: | Rationality in Social Science | ||||
Editor: | Krumpal, I. and Raub, W. and Tutić, A. | ||||
Official Date: | 3 September 2021 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 221-244 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-658-33536-6_11 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature |
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