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Are Rich People Worse Humans?

92.9 The Torch | April 27, 2025



Is money the reason Kanye West and Jake Paul are jerks?
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Further Reading/References:
The Power Hour – Hidden Brain https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/579976635/the-power-hour
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086#ref-2
Who attains social status? Effects of personality and physical attractiveness in social groups. http://www.simine.com/240/readings/Anderson_et_al_(1).pdf
The personal sense of power http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/papers/anderson/jopy734.pdf
Social status modulates neural activity in the mentalizing network https://keelyamuscatell.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/muscatell_2012_neuroimage.pdf
How to Find Your Power—and Avoid Abusing It
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_find_your_power_avoid_abusing_it
Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~jnd260/cab/CAB2012%20-%20Page1.pdf
Rich people are jerks, explained https://www.vox.com/2015/6/16/8790357/rich-people-jerks
Political primates https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/political_primates/
Social Class and the Motivational Relevance of Other Human Beings Evidence From Visual Attention http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797616667721
Giving and Volunteering in the United Sates http://www.cpanda.org/pdfs/gv/GV01Report.pdf
Losing Touch https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/losing_touch

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