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SUBMITTER: Moreno-Bella E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688552 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in psychology 20190730
Previous studies have shown that economic inequality influences psychological processes. In this article, we argue that economic inequality also makes masculine attributes more prototypical. In Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 106), using an experimental design, we showed that individuals belonging to a society characterized by a higher level of economic inequality are perceived as more masculine than feminine. Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 75) shows, also experimentally, that the upper social class is perceived mostl ...[more]