TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Increasing wealth inequality may increase interpersonal hostility: the relationship between personal relative deprivation and aggression
JO  - Journal of social psychology
A1  - Greitemeyer, Tobias
A1  - Sagioglou, Christina
SP  - 766
EP  - 776
VL  - 157
IS  - 6
N2  - In most Western societies, wealth inequality is increasing, which in turn could increase people's belief that one's standing is relatively disadvantaged. Based on relative deprivation theory, we argue that such an experience of personal relative deprivation should causally lead to greater interpersonal hostility. Indeed, three experiments show that participants in a personal relative deprivation condition reported higher levels of aggressive affect and behaved more aggressively than did participants in a personal relative gratification condition. Compared to a control condition, participants experiencing personal relative deprivation were more aggressive rather than participants experiencing personal relative gratification being less aggressive. However, personal relative deprivation increased aggressive behavior only toward targets that were the source for participants' experience of disadvantage but did not increase aggression toward neutral targets.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4545
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2017.1288078
ID  - ref1
ER  -