Upper-class people have trouble recognizing others' emotions

StephenW

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Upper-class people have trouble recognizing others' emotionsPublished: Monday, November 22, 2010 - 17:04 in Psychology & Sociology
      Upper-class people have more educational opportunities, greater financial security, and better job prospects than people from lower social classes, but that doesn't mean they're more skilled at everything. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds surprisingly, that lower-class people are better at reading the emotions of others. The researchers were inspired by observing that, for lower-class people, success depends more on how much they can rely on other individuals. For example, if you can't afford to buy support services, such as daycare service for your children, you have to rely on your neighbors or relatives to watch the kids while you attend classes or run errands, says Michael W. Kraus of the University of California-San Francisco. He cowrote the study with Stéphane Côté of the University of Toronto and Dacher Keltner of the University of California-Berkeley.
One experiment used volunteers who worked at a university. Some had graduated from college and others had not; researchers used educational level as a proxy for social class. The volunteers did a test of emotion perception, in which they were instructed to look at pictures of faces and indicate which emotions each face was displaying. People with more education performed worse on the task than people with less education. In another study, university students who were of higher social standing (determined from each student's self-reported perceptions of his or her family's socioeconomic status) had a more difficult time accurately reading the emotions of a stranger during a group job interview.
These results suggest that people of upper-class status aren't very good at recognizing the emotions other people are feeling. The researchers speculate that this is because they can solve their problems, like the daycare example, without relying on others—they aren't as dependent on the people around them.
A final experiment found that, when people were made to feel that they were at a lower social class than they actually were, they got better at reading emotions. This shows that "it's not something ingrained in the individual," Kraus says. "It's the cultural context leading to these differences." He says this work helps show that stereotypes about the classes are wrong. "It's not that a lower-class person, no matter what, is going to be less intelligent than an upper-class person. It's all about the social context the person lives in, and the specific challenges the person faces. If you can shift the context even temporarily, social class differences in any number of behaviors can be eliminated."
  Source: Association for Psychological Science

ww1984

比起穷人，富人学习机会较多，物质上较充裕，就业前景较好；但是这并不是说他们在任何事情上都胜人一筹。
令人惊奇的是，一项发表在《心理学》杂志上的研究结果表明：穷人比富人更善于读懂别人的情感。
研究人员观察到，穷人的成功与否在于其依赖他人的多少。
加州大学的Michael W. Kraus说，如果你没钱来购买某些服务，如雇一位保姆照顾你的孩子，那么当你上学或者出差时，你就必须依靠你的邻居或亲戚来照顾他们。

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学习了

大头猫

well, becuz the lower class  do everything n rely on others more than the upper class people....,见眼色行事

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