All Ranks Are Local: Why Humans Are Both (Painfully) Aware and (Surprisingly) Unaware of Their Lot in Life

Norton, Michael I.

doi:10.1080/1047840x.2013.794689

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“…Explicitly examining the link between a macro-level phenomenon and individual behavior has important implications with particular relevance in the political realm where many theories naturally relate societal conditions with political behavior. For instance, it cites Marx's thesis that workers faced with inequalities should "unite and overthrow the rich" [45] (p. 125). Marx's prediction not coming true despite rising inequality might be due to the fact that individuals do not perceive inequality as it is.…”

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Inequality Perceptions, Preferences Conducive to Redistribution, and the Conditioning Role of Social Position

Fatke

2018

Societies

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Inequality poses one of the biggest challenges of our time. It is not self-correcting in the sense that citizens demand more redistributive measures in light of rising inequality, which recent studies suggest may be due to the fact that citizens’ perceptions of inequality diverge from objective levels. Moreover, it is not the latter, but the former, which are related to preferences conducive to redistribution. However, the nascent literature on inequality perceptions has, so far, not accounted for the role of subjective position in society. The paper advances the argument that the relationship between inequality perceptions and preferences towards redistribution is conditional on the subjective position of respondents. To that end, I analyze comprehensive survey data on inequality perceptions from the social inequality module of the International Social Survey Programme (1992, 1999, and 2009). Results show that inequality perceptions are associated with preferences conducive to redistribution particularly among those perceive to be at the top of the social ladder. Gaining a better understanding of inequality perceptions contributes to comprehending the absence self-correcting inequality.

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Inequality Perceptions, Preferences Conducive to Redistribution, and the Conditioning Role of Social Position

Fatke

2018

Societies

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“…Recent research suggests that local comparisons (i.e., comparisons with others in one's immediate environment) often have more impact than global comparisons (i.e., comparisons with people in general; Kraus, Tan, & Tannenbaum, 2013;Norton, 2013). Recent research suggests that local comparisons (i.e., comparisons with others in one's immediate environment) often have more impact than global comparisons (i.e., comparisons with people in general; Kraus, Tan, & Tannenbaum, 2013;Norton, 2013).…”

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Subjective Status Shapes Political Preferences

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Economic inequality in America is at historically high levels. Although most Americans indicate that they would prefer greater equality, redistributive policies aimed at reducing inequality are frequently unpopular. Traditional accounts posit that attitudes toward redistribution are driven by economic self-interest or ideological principles. From a social psychological perspective, however, we expected that subjective comparisons with other people may be a more relevant basis for self-interest than is material wealth. We hypothesized that participants would support redistribution more when they felt low than when they felt high in subjective status, even when actual resources and self-interest were held constant. Moreover, we predicted that people would legitimize these shifts in policy attitudes by appealing selectively to ideological principles concerning fairness. In four studies, we found correlational (Study 1) and experimental (Studies 2-4) evidence that subjective status motivates shifts in support for redistributive policies along with the ideological principles that justify them.

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“…In addition, while we find no clear effects of status differences (high vs. low) on mimicry, this was not the focus of the present research. More salient manipulations could be used to test the effects of status differences in this context, especially since people often misjudge their standing relative to others when information is even slightly ambiguous (Norton 2013). Finally, our operationalization of personal similarity suggests that it is the recognition of actual similarity that drives our effects, rather than the recognition of dissimilarity or inferred similarity based on ambiguous information (i.e., a user whose name does not indicate gender).…”

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She Said, She Said: Differential Interpersonal Similarities Predict Unique Linguistic Mimicry in Online Word of Mouth

Moore¹,

McFerran²

2017

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research

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3This research examines the antecedents, causes, and consequences of linguistic mimicry, which assesses how closely individuals match others' word use, in online WOM. We examine mimicry of both linguistic style (how things are said) and content (what is said). To our knowledge, this research provides the first demonstration of unique linguistic mimicry, where consumers engaging in online WOM differentially mimic other posters' word use. Two experiments and one study using field data show that when consumers are personally similar to an individual who has previously posted (e.g., same gender), they mimic this individual's positive emotion and social word use. When consumers are similar in status to an individual who has previously posted (e.g., same forum ranking), they mimic this individual's cognitive and descriptive word use. This differential mimicry is driven by affiliation versus achievement goals, respectively, and affects consumers' engagement in online WOM in terms of posting incidence and volume.

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All Ranks Are Local: Why Humans Are Both (Painfully) Aware and (Surprisingly) Unaware of Their Lot in Life

Cited by 23 publications

References 8 publications

Inequality Perceptions, Preferences Conducive to Redistribution, and the Conditioning Role of Social Position

Inequality Perceptions, Preferences Conducive to Redistribution, and the Conditioning Role of Social Position

Subjective Status Shapes Political Preferences

She Said, She Said: Differential Interpersonal Similarities Predict Unique Linguistic Mimicry in Online Word of Mouth

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