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 ...

A new study examines how comfortable and attuned people are when talking with others, depending on their socioeconomic status ...

Diversity is a familiar topic in many college psychology classes. Race, gender, sexual orientation, LGBTQ issues, ethnicity, and disability fall under the heading of diversity. Yet one topic, social ...

Understanding the effects of social class on people's attitudes, thoughts, feelings and behaviors could have valuable implications, as it could help to tailor social and behavioral interventions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jack Kelly covers career growth, job market and workplace trends. In America, we’d like to believe that there is no such thing as ...

Whether individuals grow up in a working-class environment or in an academic household, they take on behaviors that are typical for their class -- so goes the hypothesis. A social-psychologist has now ...

Marriage is fast becoming a status symbol. In 2018, fewer people in the U.S. are getting married, but those who do are more likely to be economically privileged. A 2017 research brief found that 56% ...

Of all classes, the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. — John Kenneth Galbraith “Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior.” This is the title of a research report by ...

Employers judge the social status of prospective employees just seconds after hearing them speak for the first time, according to researchers who say this could affect job prospects and salary.