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- Lower-class individuals have fewer resources, and they may incur relatively higher personal costs for any prosocial act that requires resources, which one might expect to make them less prosocial. Our empirical review, however, indicates that lower-class individuals may be more likely than higher-class individuals to engage in prosocial behavior.
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Dec 1, 2017 · Why might lower-class individuals be more prosocial? We propose that increased prosociality is an adaptive strategy among lower-class individuals. Whereas higher-class individuals experience reduced vulnerability to threat and increased control over their environment, lower-class individuals may be more reliant upon others to cope with their ...
- Paul K Piff, Angela R Robinson
- 2017
Mar 27, 2021 · We hypothesized that participants would be more prosocial toward lower class targets, especially when compared to the higher class target, but less when compared to the middle-class target. To explore potential explanations, we included perceptions of similarity, warmth, and competence.
- Niels J. Van Doesum, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Joshua M. Tybur, Ana Leal, Eric Van Dijk
- 2021
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.
- Paul K Piff, Angela R Robinson
- 2017
Dec 1, 2017 · In this review, we highlighted findings indicating that social class is tied to an individual’s propensity toward prosociality, such that lower social class is frequently associated with increased prosocial behavior, relative to higher social class.
Mediator and moderator data showed that lower class individuals acted in a more prosocial fashion because of a greater commitment to egalitarian values and feelings of compassion. Implications for social class, prosocial behavior, and economic inequality are discussed.
- Paul K. Piff, Michael W. Kraus, Stéphane Côté, Bonnie Hayden Cheng, Dacher Keltner
- 2010
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 a charitable donation and contribute a higher percentage of their family income to charity (32,090 ≥ N ≥ 3,957; Studies 1–3), were more likely ...
We offer three lines of reasoning, predicting that lower class targets either elicit greater prosociality than higher class targets (fairness), that higher class targets elicit greater prosociality (status), or that people are most prosocial to targets from their own social class (similarity).
