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 …

How living in economically unequal societies shapes our minds and our social lives

K Peters, J Jetten - British Journal of Psychology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Underestimation of personal carbon footprint inequality in four diverse countries

KS Nielsen, JM Bauer, R Debnath, CA Emogor… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Extensive research highlights global and within-country inequality in personal carbon
footprints. However, the extent to which people are aware of these inequalities remains …

Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings

K Blesch, OP Hauser, JM Jachimowicz - Nature human behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
Prior research has found mixed results on how economic inequality is related to various
outcomes. These contradicting findings may in part stem from a predominant focus on the …

If you rise, I fall: Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups

ND Brown, DS Jacoby-Senghor, I Raymundo - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Nine preregistered studies (n= 4197) demonstrate that advantaged group members
misperceive equality as necessarily harming their access to resources and inequality as …

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 …

The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life

H Du, FM Götz, RB King, PJ Rentfrow - Journal of Personality, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This research investigates how economic inequality shapes basic human values
across three cross‐national, cross‐regional, and longitudinal studies (N total= 219,697) …

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 …

Subjective economic inequality is associated with lower well‐being through more upward comparison and lower trust

H Du, Y Huang, L Ma, X Chen, P Chi… - … : Health and Well …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals often misconstrue the actual degree of economic inequality, which might account
for the ambiguity in the literature about the role that inequality plays in well‐being. Instead of …

Perception of economic inequality: concepts, associated factors and prospects of a burgeoning research agenda (Percepción de desigualdad económica: conceptos …

JC Castillo, JD García-Castro… - International Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
La percepción de desigualdad económica se ha vuelto un tema de creciente interés en
investigaciones de distintas disciplinas de las ciencias sociales. El presente artículo …