Summary:
Regardless of a steep rise in revenue inequality over the previous 5 a long time, Individuals’ preferences for redistribution have remained stagnant. Earlier analysis means that redistributive preferences are rooted in steady institutional and cultural contexts however can change with publicity to info. We examine the position of understandings of the hyperlink between revenue and psychological well-being in shaping coverage preferences. Additional, we contemplate whether or not results differ if comparable info is framed when it comes to disadvantages for the poor versus benefits for the prosperous. In a big, preregistered on-line experiment (N = 2,751), we examined the results of three widespread themes in scholarship on happiness and well-being: Cash Prevents
Unhappiness, Cash Gives Happiness, and Cash Doesn’t Matter. Outcomes present that studying that Cash Prevents Unhappiness (versus the opposite two themes) elevated egalitarian preferences. Results had been moderated by political ideology, revenue, and subjective social class however not by race. We talk about the implications of those findings in gentle of the present cultural discourse about happiness, which frequently privileges non-income causes and optimistic feelings.
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