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Soc Psychol Personal Sci. 2017 Aug;8(6):660-669. doi: 10.1177/1948550616673877. Epub 2016 Nov 11.

The Interrelations Between Social Class, Personal Relative Deprivation, and Prosociality.

Social psychological and personality science

Mitchell J Callan, Hyunji Kim, Ana I Gheorghiu, William J Matthews

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
  2. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

PMID: 29081900 PMCID: PMC5641987 DOI: 10.1177/1948550616673877

Abstract

We propose that personal relative deprivation (PRD)-the belief that one is worse off than similar others-plays a key role in the link between social class and prosociality. Across multiple samples and measures (total

Keywords: personal relative deprivation; prosocial behavior; prosocial beliefs; social class; socioeconomic status

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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