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Researchers at NYU and the University of California, Irvine have found that information about economic inequality focusing on the disadvantages facing people from the lower-socioeconomic class, as opposed to messages highlighting advantages the upper-class receive, leads Americans to engage more with the issue and to express greater support for action to mitigate inequality.
The work, which appears in the journal
Nature Human Behaviour, included five studies. They investigated whether the manner in which economic inequality and policy are communicated either framed as upper-socioeconomic class advantages or lower-socioeconomic class disadvantages influences Americans reactions to inequality.
Using multiple methodologies (social media engagement as well as in-person and online surveys) and national samples of both lower-class and upper-class Americans, the researchers found that participants were more receptive to messages that focused on reducing poverty (vs. reducing
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