Highlights•Growing inequality has hidden costs for societies' social and political
vitality.•Economic inequality enhances wealth categorizations and 'us' versus …

Populist radical-right parties (PRRPs) were once considered “fringe parties” condemned to
permanent opposition. Their electoral success, so it was argued, would be short-lived …

How can we explain the persuasiveness of populist messages, and who are most
susceptible to their effects? These questions remain largely unanswered in extant research …

Economic inequality has been found to have pernicious effects, reducing mental and
physical health, decreasing societal cohesion, and fueling support for nativist parties and …

Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members
and undermine overall social cohesion. Here, we tested the hypothesis that economic …

Status anxiety, the constant concern about individuals' position on the social ladder,
negatively affects social cohesion, health, and wellbeing (eg, chronic stress). Given previous …

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 …

Creating opportunities for people to achieve socioeconomic mobility is a widely shared
societal goal. Paradoxically, however, achieving this goal can pose a threat to high …

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 …

It is argued that far‐right (FR) populism in the West is fuelled by inequality. In this paper, we
argue that three social psychological processes are central to explaining these phenomena …