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Inequality and polarisation

Inequality and polarisation can have far-reaching effects on people's ability to access resources, in addition to the size and quality of their social networks.

SIGN's research aims to understand how various aspects of inequality (i.e. socio-economic status) and moral and political polarisation affect behaviour and outcomes for individuals and broader society.

See below more information on SIGN's research into inequality and polarisation.

Related projects

  • Preserving prosociality in the face of inequality: A role for multiple group memberships and superordinate group identification

  • How CEO pay impacts group and organisational functioning

  • The influence of political leadership in asymmetries in empathy between political opponents

  • Moral judgement as an explanation for the lack of empathy between political opponents

  • Volunteerism in high anomie contexts

  • Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean student movement

  • Upper class support for social change: The role of class solidarity in Chile

  • Extreme polarisation in the context of the 2020 US Presidential Election

  • Perceived moral polarisation predicts support for strong leaders via the perceived breakdown of society

  • How economic inequality shapes social class stereotyping

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