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Dec 1, 2017 · Whereas higher-class individuals (indexed by a composite of income and education) donated more in public contexts partly because of higher anticipated pride, lower-class individuals donated more in anonymous, private contexts—indicating that lower-class individuals’ prosocial behavior is more driven by a concern for others’ welfare than reputational concerns.
- Paul K Piff, Angela R Robinson
- 2017
This review synthesizes research on social class and prosocial behavior. Individuals of lower social class display increased attention to others and greater sensitivity to others’ welfare compared to individuals of higher social class, who exhibit more self-oriented patterns of social cognition. As a result, lower-class individuals are more likely to engage in other-beneficial prosocial ...
- Paul K Piff, Angela R Robinson
- 2017
Dec 1, 2017 · Lower-class individuals are more attentive to the welfare of others in social interactions and more prosocial, relative to upper-class individuals (Piff & Robinson, 2017). Uncertainty and feelings of reduced personal control—appraisals associated with lower-class standing—cause stress and prompt desires to seek other sources of stability (e.g., Jonas et al., 2014; Piff, Stancato, Martinez ...
Jun 1, 2017 · Abstract. This review synthesizes research on social class and prosocial behavior. Individuals of lower social class display increased attention to others and greater sensitivity to others ...
Jul 12, 2021 · High SES people were found to be twice as likely as low SES individuals to choose the selfish over the prosocial action in ref. 5 [studies 1, 2, and 4]. If we assume that high SES households ...
- James Andreoni, Nikos Nikiforakis, Jan Stoop
- 2021
Sep 1, 2023 · People tend to perceive others' prosocial behavior as valuable and genuine when it is costly. Given that money (vs. time) is relatively scarcer for lower-class (vs. upper-class) people, we propose that the effect of target social class on others' prosocial intentions would vary across the donation and volunteering contexts.
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Jul 21, 2016 · 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 [26]. In sum ...
