According to a study recently published in the journal Psychological Science, people of higher social classes are worse than people of lower social classes at reading the emotional states of others.

As the years pass, the U.S. class system — or, more precisely, how we understand it — keeps changing. And there’s a geographic component to it all. What makes you “wealthy” in one state may not cut it ...

Research published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology finds that Americans in lower social class contexts perceive their contributions to society as less significant than those in ...

Regardless of whether we admit it, we’re all a bit curious (and maybe competitive) about how we stack up economically. Are you really middle class? If so, where do you stand within that group? In a ...

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For decades, researchers have debated how social class affects a person’s likelihood of helping others. There are two main schools of thought on the topic. One hypothesizes that because lower-income ...

No matter what social class you come from, it impacts how you show up at work. For instance, depending on your personal circumstances, you would experience a company policy that expects employees to ...

Income gaps in the working world continue once you start collecting Social Security retirement benefits, although on a smaller scale. Benefits are based on the amount of money you earn during your ...

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 be ...

How a 1950s study of social class and mental illness in New Haven changed the way people thought about mental health.