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Jul 20, 2015 · Taken together, the results of Study 1 clearly reveal that higher class households are more prosocial than lower social class households. Not only did a higher percentage of upper class households give anything to charity, but (if all households were included) they also gave a larger percentage of their income than the lower social class households.
- Martin Korndörfer, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0133193
- 2015
- PLoS One. 2015; 10(7): e0133193.
Dec 1, 2017 · Higher-class individuals have more material resources and higher social rank than lower-class individuals, who have fewer resources and more subordinate rank in society. Greater control and freedom of choice [ 6 ], reduced vulnerability to threats [ 7 , 8 ], and an emphasis on individualism and personal accomplishment [ 9 , 10 ] promote an internal, self-oriented focus among higher-class ...
- Paul K Piff, Angela R Robinson
- 2017
Feb 28, 2018 · This ‘selfishness’ account of the social class effect on prosocial behaviour is supported by another series of studies reported by Piff, Stancato, Côté, Mendoza-Denton, and Keltner , who found that, relative to lower-class individuals, higher-class people were more likely to show unethical decision-making tendencies, to take valued goods from others, to lie in a negotiation, to cheat to ...
- Antony S. R. Manstead
- 347
- 2018
- 28 February 2018
Jul 12, 2021 · The reliance of survey studies on self-reported measures of prosocial behavior may lead one to overestimate the relative prosociality of high SES people in a society if the latter feel under ...
- James Andreoni, Nikos Nikiforakis, Jan Stoop
- 2021
Mar 27, 2022 · The latest field experiment showed high social class people behaved more prosocially than low social class people . Furthermore, researchers found that people in the upper social class were more prosocial in public than in private, whereas the reverse was true for people with lower social class . In sum, those studies have pointed toward a ...
- 10.3390/ijerph19073984
- 2022/04
Jul 20, 2015 · Across eight studies with large and representative international samples, we predominantly found positive effects of social class on prosociality: Higher class individuals were more likely to make ...
Jun 1, 2017 · Thus, our study demonstrated that students primed with low social class were more prosocial than those primed with high social class, and supported the empathy-altruism theory of prosocial behavior.
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