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Whites Have Huge Wealth Edge Over Blacks (but Don’t Know It)
The New York Times: The Yale researchers suspected that many people would not get the answers right. “I’m a person who studies inequality, who should really know how inequality looks,” said one of the psychologists
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring social comparison and achievement in academic settings, the role of the hippocampus in enhanced fear learning in rats, and how emotion influences ensemble coding.
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AMERICA’S SURPRISING VIEWS ON INCOME INEQUALITY
The New Yorker: As a whole, the population of the United States is wealthier today than it has ever been. But, as has often been reported, the relative increases haven’t been uniform. In 1970, the
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Why Are Millennials Narcissistic? Blame Income Inequality
Live Science: Millennials have heard it before: People born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s are the most narcissistic, individualistic and self-absorbed generation in recorded history. Plenty of people have tried to explain
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People Don’t Actually Want Equality
The Atlantic: People might be troubled by what they see as unjust causes of economic inequality, a perfectly reasonable concern given how much your income and wealth are determined by accidents of birth, including how
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Economic Growth Can’t Buy Happiness
New psychological findings show why a country’s economic growth doesn’t always translate into greater happiness for its citizens.
