The psychosocial effects of economic inequality depend on its perception

GB Willis, E García-Sánchez… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Economic inequality might influence subjective well-being through psychological processes
such as status competition and social distance. However, evidence for this claim is mixed. In …

Inequality in researchers' minds: Four guiding questions for studying subjective perceptions of economic inequality

JM Jachimowicz, S Davidai… - Journal of Economic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Subjective perceptions of inequality can substantially influence policy attitudes, public health
metrics, and societal well‐being, but the lack of consensus in the scientific community on …

Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures.

M Atari, J Haidt, J Graham, S Koleva… - Journal of Personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Moral foundations theory has been a generative framework in moral psychology in the last 2
decades. Here, we revisit the theory and develop a new measurement tool, the Moral …

[LIVRE][B] A theory of system justification

JT Jost - 2020 - books.google.com
A leading psychologist explains why nearly all of us--including many of those who are
persecuted and powerless--so often defend the social systems that cause misery and …

What predicts perceived economic inequality? The roles of actual inequality, system justification, and fairness considerations

H Du, RB King - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Past studies have mostly focused on investigating actual economic inequality with less work
devoted to understanding perceived economic inequality and its antecedents. However …

A psychology of ideology: Unpacking the psychological structure of ideological thinking

L Zmigrod - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The psychological study of ideology has traditionally emphasized the content of ideological
beliefs, guided by questions about what people believe, such as why people believe in …

Ideology selectively shapes attention to inequality

HB Waldfogel, J Sheehy-Skeffington… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Contemporary debates about addressing inequality require a common, accurate
understanding of the scope of the issue at hand. Yet little is known about who notices …

Political ideology and moral dilemmas in public good provision

LC Hoenig, R Pliskin, CKW De Dreu - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Individuals often face dilemmas in which non-cooperation serves their self-interest and
cooperation favors society at large. Cooperation is often considered the moral choice …

Neoliberalism and the ideological construction of equity beliefs

S Goudarzi, V Badaan… - … on Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers across disciplines, including psychology, have sought to understand how
people evaluate the fairness of resource distributions. Equity, defined as proportionality of …

Tax the élites! The role of economic inequality and conspiracy beliefs on attitudes towards taxes and redistribution intentions

BG Salvador Casara, S Filippi, C Suitner… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Taxation is one of the most widely acknowledged strategies to reduce inequality, particularly
if based on progressivity. In a high‐powered sample study (N= 2119) we investigated …