'Lower Status' People More Likely to Share Wealth Than ‘Higher Status’ People

[Chip (OP)]

Us addicts are probably, on average, more generous than people give us credit for; socially often on the low rungs !

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An excerpt: (the study continues at the source link ...)

The study also goes to show that we can’t rely on empathy as a way to improve the good will of those that are in high status positions, this consistently failed to work in the experiments.

Dr Osman said: “The other surprising finding is that empathy has next to no impact on promoting pro-social behaviour, in other words contributing money to the group pot. This matters because there are a lot of claims that empathy is the glue that binds people to act socially. What we show is that when money matters, empathy plays virtually no role in improving pro-social behaviours.”