Although economic mobility is an objectively defined term, lay beliefs about mobility—the configuration of ideas and attitudes about economic mobility that is not necessarily grounded in economic data—are often formed in a subjective manner. Drawing on research from the United States and beyond, we propose a novel framework for understanding how people construe, think about, and understand economic mobility. We highlight the importance of systematically examining the type, time frame, trajectory, and target of mobility that people have in mind for understanding when they most and least strongly believe in it. In addition, our framework offers a conceptual roadmap for examining the factors that influence lay beliefs about mobility, including individual differences in these lay beliefs and their important downstream consequences. Finally, we outline several important open questions that are highlighted by our framework as a guide for future research on lay beliefs about economic mobility.

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关于经济流动性的外行信念的心理学

虽然经济流动性是客观定义项，奠定信念迁移率约为经济流动性的想法和态度的配置 是 没有必要的经济数据-接地往往形成一种主观的方式。借鉴美国及其他地区的研究，我们提出了一个新的框架来理解人们如何解释、思考和理解经济流动性。我们强调系统检查类型、时间框架、轨迹和目标的重要性人们在最强烈和最不相信它时会考虑到的流动性。此外，我们的框架提供了一个概念路线图，用于检查影响有关流动性的非专业信念的因素，包括这些非专业信念的个体差异及其重要的下游后果。最后，我们概述了我们的框架强调的几个重要的开放性问题，作为未来关于经济流动性的非专业信念研究的指南。