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ArticlePloS one2025

Higher social class is associated with higher contextualized emotion recognition accuracy across cultures.

Konstantinos Kafetsios, Ursula Hess, Itziar Alonso-Arbiol, Astrid Schütz, Dritjon Gruda, Kelly Campbell, Bin-Bin Chen, Daniel Dostal, Marco J Held, Petra Hypsova and 14 more

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Konstantinos KafetsiosSchool of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5933-4409
Ursula HessDepartment of Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6793-7282
Itziar Alonso-ArbiolPsychology Department, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4638-085X
Astrid SchützPsychology Department, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Dritjon GrudaCatólica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8315-0826
Kelly CampbellPsychology Department, California State University, San Bernardino, California, United States of America.
Bin-Bin ChenPsychology Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Daniel DostalDepartment of Psychology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia.
Marco J HeldPsychology Department, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Petra HypsovaDepartment of Psychology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia.
Shanmukh KamblePsychology Department, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India.
Takuma KimuraFaculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7126-188X
Alexander Kirchner-HäuslerSchool of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Marina KyveleaMedical School, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece.
Stefano LiviDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Eugenia MandalInstitute of Psychology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1125-1756
Dominika OchnikDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Academy of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9019-7091
Nektarios PapageorgakopoulosSchool of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0577-3830
Martin SeitlDepartment of Psychology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3996-2085
Ezgi SakmanDepartment of Psychology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5974-6566
Nebi SumerDepartment of Psychology, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Filip SulejmanovDepartment of Psychology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia.
Annalisa TheodorouDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0759-764X
Ayse K UskulSchool of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We tested links between social status and emotion recognition accuracy (ERA) with participants from a diverse array of cultures and a new model and method of ERA, the Assessment of Contextualized Emotion (ACE), which incorporates social context and is linked to different types of social interaction across cultures. Participants from the Czech Republic (Study 1) and from 12 cultural groups in Europe, North America, and Asia (Study 2) completed a short version of the ACE, a self-construal scale, and the MacArthur Subjective Social Status (SSS) scale. In both studies, higher SSS was associated with more accuracy. In Study 2, this relationship was mediated by higher independent self-construal and moderated by countries' long-term orientation and relational mobility. The findings suggest that the positive association between higher social class and emotion recognition accuracy is due to the use of agentic modes of socio-cognitive reasoning by higher status individuals. This raises new questions regarding the socio-cultural ecologies that afford this relationship.

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CultureEmotionsRecognition, PsychologySocial ClassAdolescentAdultAsiaCross-Cultural ComparisonCzech RepublicEuropeFemaleHumansMaleNorth AmericaYoung Adult

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PMCPMC12074547

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