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Environment can establish trends in behavior. As in the environment of people with high social status may have characteristics or behavioral resemblance to one another. Meanwhile, in an environment of people with middle and lower social status can also have similar behavior.
People who consider themselves upper class may not always have good manners. Group of upper class people are more likely to engage in behaviors that are less good than people with high social status.
It is based on the results of a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Toronto conducted seven different experiments.
A person's behavior may be related to one's situation in life than the intrinsic quality of the person. The study results show inequalities in society's behavior. Social status has a surprising effect on how people view the world outside and surrounding environment, "said researcher Paul PIFF, of the psychology department Berkeley as reported by WebMD.
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In the first experiment, the researchers observed that people drive expensive cars are more likely to cut off other motorists at intersections than people driving vehicles. In a second experiment, people who drive ordinary vehicles more priority to pedestrians compared with people who drive luxury vehicles.
In a second experiment, groups of people with high social status are allowed to take sweets in a jar, even though the preferred sweets for children. Then the majority of a group of people with high social status took the candy.
"One of the strengths of this study is to examine the behavior in real-world settings and in the laboratory. The research highlights how the experience in the context of different social classes can have a strong impact on our behavior everyday and interaction with others," said Nicole M . Stephens, assistant professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
"If you can make the lower classes to support the value of it, they are just as likely to behave unethically. If you can change your beliefs about greed, you can change the behavior. Theoretically you could emphasize the negative features of greed and reduces the tendency unethical," PIFF said.
"It is interesting when the same basic phenomenon demonstrated using a variety of experimental methods. The ability to justify and ignore behavior transgressive as exceptions to the self-concept of responsibility is the key to making unethical choices," said Martin Ford, PhD, a psychologist and professor of education from George Mason University.
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