"...In seven separate studies conducted on the UC Berkeley campus, in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationwide, UC Berkeley researchers consistently found that upper-class participants were more likely to lie and cheat when gambling or negotiating; cut people off when driving, and endorse unethical behavior in the workplace.

“The increased unethical tendencies of upper-class individuals are driven, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed,” said Paul Piff, a doctoral student in psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of the paper published today (Monday, Feb. 27) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences..."

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broken-kebab 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

Wow! So I correctly described it? It's a student's work, there's no data attached, and the whole matter is about "greed to be the most significant predictor of unethical behavior" just expressed in class war terms.

	▲	root-parent 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Keep ignoring ALL other studies and the credibility of a good one. You know, gas lighting reality, is not a pleasant way to go trough life... "The rich are different: Unravelling the perceived and self-reported personality profiles of high-net-worth individuals" - https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjop.... "Tax Evasion and Inequality"- https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.20172043 "...Drawing on a unique dataset of leaked customer lists from offshore financial institutions matched to administrative wealth records in Scandinavia, we show that offshore tax evasion is highly concentrated among the rich. The skewed distribution of offshore wealth implies high rates of tax evasion at the top: we find that the 0.01 percent richest households evade about 25 percent of their taxes. By contrast, tax evasion detected in stratified random tax audits is less than 5 percent throughout the distribution..." "The personality traits of self-made and inherited millionaires" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01099-3