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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
- 2015
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
Jul 12, 2021 · By showing that high SES households are not more likely to behave less prosocially than low SES households in a natural setting—thus avoiding demand effects and social desirability bias—while ...
- James Andreoni, Nikos Nikiforakis, Jan Stoop
- 2021
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
Aug 9, 2019 · Empirical research has provided mixed evidence regarding the question of whether higher social class promotes prosocial behavior. Recently, Côté et al. [1] hypothesized that these conflicting evidences might result from a hitherto neglected interaction between the individual’s level of income and the degree of inequality in one’s society. They argue that societies with a higher level of ...
Jul 20, 2015 · social class individuals are more prosocial than higher class individuals [1, 4]. ... income = $10,531) donated 4.3% of their income to charity, whereas households from the high-est income group ...
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Jun 1, 2017 · The results indicated that students in a low social class priming condition had a stronger connection between self-concepts and prosocial inclinations than ones in a high social class priming ...
