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Poverty Prefers Company

Author(s) -

Kimmo Eriksson,

Brent Simpson

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

social psychological and personality science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.276

H-Index - 58

eISSN - 1948-5514

pISSN - 1948-5506

DOI - 10.1177/1948550613497985

Subject(s) - poverty , preference , affect (linguistics) , inequality , psychology , social psychology , demographic economics , socioeconomics , sociology , economics , economic growth , mathematical analysis , mathematics , communication , microeconomics

In three web-based experiments, we show that both actual poverty and experimentally induced (imagined) poverty create a preference for greater inequality. Study 1, a cross-national comparison between Americans and Swedes, showed that respondents who were actually poor and those who were experimentally induced to imagine that they were poor tended to express a heightened preference for greater inequality, and for a higher proportion of poor citizens. Study 2 replicated the effects using different procedures. Study 3 showed that imagining oneself being poor increases preferences for a greater proportion of poor people, but imagining oneself being rich does not increase preferences for a greater proportion of rich people. This poverty prefers company effect might affect support for policies aiming at reducing the number of poor people

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