Highlights•Overviews social class differences in interpersonal attention and prosocial
emotion.•Reviews evidence linking lower social class to increased prosocial …

Implicit in the long-standing disagreements about whether humans' fundamental nature is
predominantly caring or callous is an assumption of uniformity. This article reviews evidence …

Drawing on recent research on the psychology of social class, I argue that the material
conditions in which people grow up and live have a lasting impact on their personal and …

From TV's “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the
wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on …

Building on optimal distinctiveness theory, this research examines the effects of social class
on green consumption. Across six studies, we find a curvilinear effect of social class on …

Does higher socioeconomic status predict decreased prosocial behavior? Methodological
issues such as the reliance of survey studies on self-reported measures of prosociality, the …

Research on social class and generosity suggests that higher-income individuals are less
generous than poorer individuals. We propose that this pattern emerges only under …

Social class reflects more than the material conditions of people's lives. Objective resources
(eg, income) shape cultural practices and behaviors that signal social class. These signals …

Why does economic inequality continue to rise despite being disfavored and harmful to
individuals and society? To better understand this inequality paradox, we advance an …

Individuals can experience a lack of economic resources compared to others, which we refer
to as subjective experiences of economic scarcity. While such experiences have been …