APS

2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023

Conceptions of Social and Individual Mobility Mediate Young Adults' Predictions of National Wealth Distribution

Washington, DC · May 2023

Poster · Social

  • Ameya Sriram
    University of Maryland, College Park
  • Arvid Samuelson
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Amanda Burkholder
    University of Maryland, College Park
  • Audun Dahl
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Melanie Killen
    University of Maryland, College Park

Abstract

Conceptions of individual and social mobility were hypothesized to be related to predictions of national wealth distribution. Surveying a sample of young adults, the relationships between individual and societal social mobility were significantly related to participants' explanations for wealth attainment as stemming from individual (not structural) factors.

Other

← Poster Session VII