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Social-Class background influences attentional processing: social class and self-construals predict field-dependence

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Social class, like other forms of cultural contexts, impacts both cognitive functioning and behavioral tendencies. Growing up in a working-class (vs. middle-class) environment tends to foster the development of more interdependent (vs. independent) self-construals (e.g., Piff, Kraus, & Keltner, 2018). Interdependent self-construals are thought to promote holistic modes of processing, including visuo-spatial aspects such as field dependence (i.e., reliance on external cues). Consistent with this view, working-class individuals have been found to devote more attention to surrounding social stimuli than middle-class individuals (Dietze & Knowles, 2016). The current work aimed to demonstrate that class-based differences in perceptual processing extend to non-social stimuli. Using a Portable Rod-and-Frame Test (PRFT), on which a poorer performance is diagnostic of fielddependence, we successfully demonstrated that working-class (Study 1, N = 203) and interdependence-primed individuals (Study 2, N = 200) tend to be more field-dependent than their respective middle-class and independence- primed counterparts. Moreover, manipulating the intellectual diagnosticity of the PRFT did not modulate the effect of social-class on performance (Study 3, N = 240), ruling out the possibility that the lower performance of working-class individuals was due to self-integrity threat. Our results suggest that working-class (vs. middle-class) individuals, who hold more interdependent self-construals (e.g., Stephens et al., 2007), tend to process their surrounding visuospatial environment in a more context-dependent (context independent) manner, even when the environment is free from social stimuli.

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Psychologie
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hal-03863681 , version 1 (21-11-2022)

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Medhi Marot, Cédric Bouquet, Jean-Claude Croizet. Social-Class background influences attentional processing: social class and self-construals predict field-dependence. 14e Congrès International de Psychologie Sociale (CIPS 2022), ADRIPS; Laboratoire de Psychologie - EA4139; Université de Bordeaux, Jul 2022, Bordeaux, France. ⟨hal-03863681⟩
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