Wealthy people may be likely to oppose redistribution of wealth because they have biased information about how wealthy most people actually are.<\/p>\n
That’s according to new research from Kent psychologists Rael Dawtry and Professor Robbie Sutton and also Dr Chris Sibley of the University of Auckland.<\/p>\n
Their findings, published in Psychological Science, a flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science <\/i><\/a>, indicate that people use their own neighbours as a gauge of how much wealth other people possess.<\/p>\n As a result, the rich and poor do not simply have different attitudes about how wealth should be distributed across society. Rather, they subjectively experience living in different societies.<\/p>\n For more details, see the full press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wealthy people may be likely to oppose redistribution of wealth because they have biased information about how wealthy most people actually are. That’s according to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,109,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}