Publications by authors named "Jessica J W Paek"
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- The study suggests that a lack of personal control leads people to prefer others who are similar to themselves, driven by a greater need for structure in their lives.
- This was supported by extensive research involving 11 studies and data from 60 countries, showing participants with lower personal control preferred homogenous groups and coworkers.
- Overall, the findings emphasize how the desire for personal control influences social preferences and can lead to more homogeneous social environments.
Although everyone strives toward valued goals, we suggest that not everyone will be perceived as doing so equally. In this research, we examine the tendency to use social class as a cue to understand the importance of others' goals. Six studies find evidence of a goal-value bias: Observers perceive goals across a variety of domains as more valuable to higher class than to lower class individuals (Studies 1-6).
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