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A 4-study replication of the moderating effects of greed on socioeconomic status and unethical behaviour.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Economic inequality fosters unethical behaviour by promoting the perception of immoral and competitive normative climates.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Advancing the psychology of social class with large-scale replications in four countries.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Greater income and financial well-being are associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviors across 76 countries.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Subjective socioeconomic status and income inequality are associated with self-reported morality across 67 countries.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Distrust as a form of inequality.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- In Japan, individuals of higher social class engage in other-oriented humor.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Money Does Not Always Buy Happiness, but Are Richer People Less Happy in Their Daily Lives? It Depends on How You Analyze Income.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Higher socioeconomic status does not predict decreased prosocial behavior in a field experiment.Nature communications · 2021Article
- No evidence that economic inequality moderates the effect of income on generosity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Replication data collection highlights value in diversity of replication attempts.Scientific data · 2017Article
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Abstract
Four replications of Piff and colleagues' study examined the moderating effects of greed attitudes on the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and unethical behaviour (Study 7). In the original study, the researchers found that both greed and SES predicted increased propensity to engage in unethical behavior. Furthermore, this association was moderated such that the effects of SES on unethical behaviour were no longer present in the greed prime condition versus the neutral condition. In replication 1 of the original study main effects of greed attitudes and SES were found, but no interaction was found. Main effects for greed emerged in replications 3 and 4. However no main effects for SES or interactions emerged for replications 2-4. A meta-analysis was conducted with all replications and the original study, and found no moderating effect of greed on the relationship between SES and unethical behavior.
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