The economic inequality as normative information model (EINIM)

Á Sánchez-Rodríguez… - European Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a new model that aims to contribute to the growing literature about the
consequences of economic inequality: the economic inequality as normative information …

How do people make sense of wealth and poverty?

S Davidai - Current opinion in psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Economic outcomes reflect an intricate mixture of people's internal dispositions and external
circumstances that are beyond their control. How, then, do people make sense of wealth and …

Shifting attributions for poverty motivates opposition to inequality and enhances egalitarianism

PK Piff, D Wiwad, AR Robinson, LB Aknin… - Nature Human …, 2020 - nature.com
Amidst rising economic inequality and mounting evidence of its pernicious social effects,
what motivates opposition to inequality? Five studies (n= 34,442) show that attributing …

How economic inequality shapes social class stereoty**

P Tanjitpiyanond, J Jetten, K Peters - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
Two pre-registered experiments (Total N= 822) explored the effect of economic inequality on
social class stereoty** and the social mechanisms driving this relationship. In both …

Economic inequality enhances inferences that the normative climate is individualistic and competitive

Á Sánchez‐Rodríguez, GB Willis… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to the negative effects of economic inequality on a range of health and social
outcomes, we propose that inequality should also affect how people perceive the broader …

Restless in an unequal world: Economic inequality fuels the desire for wealth and status

Z Wang, J Jetten, NK Steffens - Personality and Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Building on theories explaining social outcomes of economic inequality, our research
examined the psychological impact of inequality on the desire for wealth and status. Our …

The language of inequality: Evidence economic inequality increases wealth category salience

K Peters, J Jetten, P Tanjitpiyanond… - Personality and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
There is evidence that in more economically unequal societies, social relations are more
strained. We argue that this may reflect the tendency for wealth to become a more fitting lens …

Socioeconomic status and the structure of the self‐concept

MJ Easterbrook, T Kuppens… - British Journal of Social …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals have a myriad of potential identities that they can use to define who they are, yet
little research has investigated which types of identities people tend to prioritize within their …

Dehumanization of socioeconomically disadvantaged groups decreases support for welfare policies via perceived wastefulness

M Sainz, S Loughnan, R Martínez Gutiérrez… - 2020 - digibug.ugr.es
Low-socioeconomic status (SES) groups are sometimes depicted as money wasters who
live on welfare. Previous research has also found that low-SES groups are also animalized …

Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly, the role of perceived upward and downward mobility

D Melita, R Rodríguez‐Bailón… - British Journal of Social …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Status anxiety theory posits that higher income inequality leads people to attribute more
importance to their socioeconomic status and to worry about the position they occupy on the …