APS

30th APS Annual Convention

The Psychology of Income Inequality

Sunday, May 27, 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Oral · Social

Recent decades have seen dramatic increases in income inequality in much of the Western world. This symposium will present a range of new empirical research aimed at identifying the individual-level psychological consequences of shifts in income inequality, and the proximal psychological mechanisms by which they occur.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Serena ChenChair
    University of California, Berkeley

Presentations

  1. Economic Inequality Increases Risk TakingJazmin Brown-Iannuzzi
  2. The Consequences of Income Inequality for Public OpinionKris-Stella Trump
  3. Income Inequality and Racial Bias in the USA: Evidence from Project Implicit and Google TrendsPaul Connor
  4. A Land Divided: The Effects of Income Inequality on Social Relations and the Desire for Financial Gain Daniel Stancato