APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Impossible Expectations for the Poor

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Social

Session: Poster Session IX

Authors

Abstract

These studies explore how people often hold the poor to logically inconsistent and impossible expectations. And when poor individuals fall short of these impossible expectations, people judge them more harshly, driving common stereotypes of people facing poverty.

Implicit Bias