More money, more kindness?
A team of researchers from the Academy of Sciences of China discovered that the upper class is considered children and more useful than the least fortunate, and for a specific reason.
The experts from the Netherlands, China and Germany analyzed data from more than 2 million people from all age groups around the world, including China, the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, Sweden and Australia, agreeing to the Daily mail.
If you are so surprised to discover this, you are not alone.
In most television and films programs, the person Snoty and Rica is often represented as greedy, badly and slightly, perhaps very, tortuous.
But this new research says otherwise.
The study, which was originally published in the Psychological Bulletin magazine, examined the positive behavior, will and generosity of people by helping others and if they did any volume work or involved in charitable causes.
“Regardless of how we measure the social class, we find a small positive association between the highest social class and the most prosociality [behaviors intended to benefit others]”Professor Paul van Lange said from Vrije University in Amsterdam The times.
“Although the effect is small, the highest social classes are more prosocial is quite stable in different groups of age people,” the researchers wrote in the article published in the magazine.
“In addition to whether the social class is based on their beliefs or objective indicators that are commonly used in research.”
However, before someone thinks that people who are in different tax supports are not generous or friendly, the study discovered that people’s desire to help others did not differ much. It was how much they could give and their ability to give that varied.
And although rich people could be more generous, the intention behind their donation actions could shake your head.
“It is possible that the highest social classes are a bit more focused on reputation gains that can derive from public forms of help and generosity,” Long explained.
Ultimately, this type of finding indicates psychological behavior or different social classes.
“This research can inform the political and professionals responsible for the possible interventions that can promote cooperation and prosocial behavior in various social classes,” said the article.
NYC is home to 123 billionaires It is worth a combined $ 759 billion, according to the 2025 forbes edition of Cities with most billionaires – Which must mean that the Big Apple has many kind and generous neighbors.
