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Socioeconomic Status Shapes Dyadic Interactions: Examining Behavioral and Physiologic Responses.

Jacinth J X Tan¹, Tessa V West², Wendy Berry Mendes³

¹School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University.

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Summary

People of lower socioeconomic status (SES) show greater social attunement to partners, regardless of partner

Keywords:

dyadic interaction person perception physiologic linkage physiological reactivity socioeconomic status

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Sociology
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Background:

Diverse social interactions are increasing.
Little is known about social dynamics between different socioeconomic statuses (SES).

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate social-attunement patterns in dyadic interactions involving differing socioeconomic statuses (SES).

Main Methods:

Examined physiological linkage during dyadic interactions between similar- and different-SES partners.
Assessed attunement by measuring how one person's physiological changes predict another's over time.
Recruited 130 unacquainted adult dyads from a US community.

Main Results:

Lower-SES participants exhibited stronger physiological linkage, indicating greater attunement, across all SES partners.
Participants reported greater comfort interacting with lower-SES partners.
No SES differences in conversational dominance were observed.
Participants reported higher liking for similar-SES partners post-interaction.

Conclusions:

Lower-SES individuals appear more other-focused during interactions than higher-SES individuals.
In-group preference influences social interactions, with individuals tending to prefer partners of similar SES.
Findings suggest complex attunement dynamics influenced by socioeconomic status.