Racial inequality is a foundational feature of the criminal justice system in the United States.
Here we offer a psychological account for how Americans have come to tolerate a system …

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 …

One critical role counseling psychologists can play in dismantling anti-Blackness and
eradicating systemic racism is to build on the field's strength in understanding individual …

Do clashes between ideologies reflect policy differences or something more fundamental?
The present research suggests they reflect core psychological differences such that liberals …

Highlights•Laypeople's beliefs about their country's income and wealth distributions are
typically inaccurate.•These misperceptions are caused in part by overreliance on cues from …

Economic inequality has been associated with a host of social ills, but most research has
focused on objective measures of inequality. We argue that economic inequality also has a …

In recent decades, the economies of many countries have produced increasingly unequal
outcomes for the rich and poor. This economic trend has attracted interest from members of …

The Leave campaign in the UK, which advocated exiting the European Union, emphasized
anxiety over immigration and the need to take control of the UK's borders. Citizens who …

Although economic inequality has increased over the last few decades, support for
redistributive policies is not widely accepted by the public. In this paper, we examine …

Nine preregistered studies (n= 4197) demonstrate that advantaged group members
misperceive equality as necessarily harming their access to resources and inequality as …