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Michael W. Kraus is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a concentration in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Gender Studies, General Health Professions, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main topics covered in Kraus's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Health disparities and outcomes, and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology.

Recent papers published by Kraus and their colleagues include:

  • "The association between objective and subjective socioeconomic status and subjective well-being: A meta-analytic review." (2020, Psychological Bulletin)
  • "Disrupting Beliefs in Racial Progress: Reminders of Persistent Racism Alter Perceptions of Past, But Not Current, Racial Economic Equality" (2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin)
  • "Psychological Science Is Not Race Neutral" (2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • "How narratives of racial progress create barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations" (2021, Current Opinion in Psychology)
  • "Testing the efficacy of three informational interventions for reducing misperceptions of the Black-White wealth gap" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Kraus frequently collaborates with several coauthors. Those with whom they have published most often include Jennifer A. Richeson, Cydney H. Dupree, Brittany Torrez, LaStarr Hollie, and Bennett Callaghan.

Their work appears in a variety of publication venues. Key venues where Kraus has multiple publications are:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Affective Science
  • Nature Reviews Psychology

Best Publications

  • Having Less, Giving More: The Influence of Social Class on Prosocial Behavior

    Paul K. Piff;Michael W. Kraus;Stéphane Côté;Bonnie Hayden Cheng

  • Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: how the rich are different from the poor.

    Michael W. Kraus;Paul K. Piff;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Michelle L. Rheinschmidt

  • Social Class, Sense of Control, and Social Explanation

    Michael W. Kraus;Paul K. Piff;Dacher Keltner

  • Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy

    Michael W. Kraus;Stéphane Côté;Dacher Keltner

  • Signs of Socioeconomic Status A Thin-Slicing Approach

    Michael W. Kraus;Dacher Keltner

  • The Local-Ladder Effect Social Status and Subjective Well-Being

    Cameron Anderson;Michael W. Kraus;Adam D. Galinsky;Dacher Keltner

  • Social Class as Culture The Convergence of Resources and Rank in the Social Realm

    Michael W. Kraus;Paul K. Piff;Dacher Keltner

  • Class and Compassion: Socioeconomic Factors Predict Responses to Suffering

    Jennifer E. Stellar;Vida M. Manzo;Michael W. Kraus;Dacher Keltner

  • The association between objective and subjective socioeconomic status and subjective well-being: A meta-analytic review.

    Jacinth J. X. Tan;Michael W. Kraus;Nichelle C. Carpenter;Nancy E. Adler

  • A Reciprocal Influence Model of Social Power: Emerging Principles and Lines of Inquiry

    D. Keltner;G.A. van Kleef;S. Chen;M. Kraus

  • Americans overestimate social class mobility

    Michael W. Kraus;Jacinth J.X. Tan

  • A Road Map for an Emerging Psychology of Social Class

    Michael W. Kraus;Nicole M. Stephens

  • Social power facilitates the effect of prosocial orientation on empathic accuracy.

    Stéphane Côté;Michael W. Kraus;Bonnie Hayden Cheng;Christopher Oveis

  • The power to be me: Power elevates self-concept consistency and authenticity

    Michael W. Kraus;Serena Chen;Dacher Keltner

  • Signs of Social Class: The Experience of Economic Inequality in Everyday Life.

    Michael W. Kraus;Jun Won Park;Jacinth J. X. Tan

  • Social class rank, essentialism, and punitive judgment.

    Michael W. Kraus;Dacher Keltner

  • The Social Ladder: A Rank-Based Perspective on Social Class

    Michael W. Kraus;Jacinth J. X. Tan;Melanie B. Tannenbaum

  • Social Class Rank, Threat Vigilance, and Hostile Reactivity

    Michael W. Kraus;E. J. Horberg;Jennifer L. Goetz;Dacher Keltner

  • The Misperception of Racial Economic Inequality.

    Michael W. Kraus;Ivuoma N. Onyeador;Natalie M. Daumeyer;Julian M. Rucker

  • Americans misperceive racial economic equality.

    Michael W. Kraus;Julian M. Rucker;Jennifer A. Richeson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Paul K. Piff
Paul K. Piff University of California, Irvine
Jennifer A. Richeson
Jennifer A. Richeson Yale University
Serena Chen
Serena Chen University of California, Berkeley
Cameron Anderson
Cameron Anderson University of California, Berkeley
Stéphane Côté
Stéphane Côté University of Toronto
Adam D. Galinsky
Adam D. Galinsky Columbia University
Nancy E. Adler
Nancy E. Adler University of California, San Francisco
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton University of California, Berkeley
Dov Cohen
Dov Cohen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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