osorio, Valeria (2022) Effect of Cultural Preferences and Network diversity on the Education Bias. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The present study aims to replicate findings by Kuppens et al. (2018) demonstrating the educational bias by the higher educated towards the lower educated as well as investigating the effect that network diversity and cultural preferences have on this bias. We came up with four hypotheses, 1) replicate the findings by Kuppens et al. (2018). 2) Diversity of network acts as a moderator for the education bias resulting in people with a diverse network being less biased towards the lower educated. 3) Main effect for cultural preferences which leads to people with highbrow cultural preferences being preferred over profiles with lowbrow preferences. 4) Cultural preferences as a moderator for the education bias resulting in no education effect for people with highbrow preferences, but an education effect for people with lowbrow preferences. To test these hypotheses, we conducted an online survey in which a sample of highly educated people (n = 229, M_age = 22.3, 〖SD〗_age = 10.6) had to evaluate four profiles that varied in level of education and cultural preferences. Respondents were also asked questions regarding their network diversity. The results from the study showed support for hypothesis one, two and three. The data showed that high education profiles were evaluated better than low education profiles, that there is a significant interaction effect between network diversity and educational bias which results in the educational bias decreasing as network diversity increases, and that there is a preference for profiles with highbrow preferences over lowbrow preferences. Hypothesis four was not supported as there was no significant interaction effect.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kuppens, T. and Gordijn, E.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2022 12:12 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2022 12:12 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/316 |
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