Attitudes Toward the Poor and Attributions for Poverty

By Catherine Cozzarelli, A. Wilkinson, M. Tagler. 2001

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Emotional Policy: Personal Sadness and Anger Shape Judgments about a Welfare Case (2008, background): “However, there are also important individual differences, including belief in a Protestant work ethic, belief in a “just world,” endorsing right-wing authoritarian views, having high income, and prizing individual liberty (see Appelbaum, 2002; Cozzarelli, Wilkinson, & Tagler, 2001 ).”
The moral economy of inequality: popular views on income differentiation, poverty and wealth (2012, background): “values of mainstream society (Cozzarelli et al., 2001; Lepianka et al., 2009).”
Popular Explanations of Poverty: A Critical Discussion of Empirical Research (2009, background): “…the mixed character of a fatalistic set of beliefs (factors) yielded by various analytical procedures (Furnham, 1982a, 1982b; Payne and Furnham, 1985); or (d) account for a failure to extract a fatalistic set of beliefs as a distinct category in poverty explanations (Cozzarelli et al., 2001).”
Social Class is Dead. Long Live Social Class! Stereotype Threat among Low Socioeconomic Status Individuals (2007, background): “Consistent with a system justification perspective, people tend to blame the poor for their poverty ( Cozzarelli, Wilkinson, & Tagler, 2001 ).”
Predicting Support for Welfare Policies: The Impact of Attributions and Beliefs About Inequality (2003, methodology): “The 45-item Attributions for Poverty Questionnaire contained new items and those adapted from previously tested scales (Bullock, 1999; Cozzarelli et al., 2001; Furnham, 1982).”
The Development of Stereotypes About the Rich and Poor: Age, Race, and Family Income Differences in Beliefs (2005, background): “Beliefs about the characteristics of poor people and the causes of poverty undoubtedly influence, directly and indirectly, middle class voting behavior, social policy decisions, beliefs about welfare, and willingness as a society to end poverty (cf. Cozzarelli et al., 2001).”
Wealth and Welfare: Divergent Moral Reactions to Ethical Consumer Choices (2016, background): “If, as we have proposed, low-income consumers receiving government assistance are seen as undeserving due to improper money management (Cozzarelli et al. 2001), then spending taxpayer dollars on ethical goods could lead to perceptions among individuals that the recipients are abusing “their” money.”
White Male Power and Privilege: The Relationship Between White Supremacy and Social Class (2017, background): “As a form of internalized classism (Liu, 2011), endorsing meritocratic beliefs led people to blame themselves for not being successful (Cozzarelli et al., 2001) and contributed to the perception that those in power are competent, even if there are no data to support their perception of competence (H”
Mapping Cultural Schemas: From Theory to Method (2019, background): “Prior work is mixed on whether liberals or conservatives are more likely to embrace interactional explanations of poverty (see Cozzarelli, Wilkinson, and Tagler 2001; Homan et al. 2017).”
The consequences of stereotype threat on the academic performance of White and non-White lower income college students (2006, background): “This most likely occurs because there are widespread and firmly held stereotypes that the poor are lazy, unintelligent, and unmotivated ( Cozzarelli, Wilkinson, & Tagler, 2001 ).”
Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “One series of studies examined whether lower-class individuals, aware that their social class background will be viewed negatively by others (e.g., Cozzarelli et al., 2001), attempt to conceal their class by strategically modifying their behavior, particularly in interactions with upper-class…”
The rich—love them or hate them? Divergent implicit and explicit attitudes toward the wealthy (2017, background): “Based on previous work showing that middle-class people’s explicit evaluations of people with low SES are negative (Cozzarelli et al., 2001; Lott, 2002), and that people discriminate against people with low SES even in situations where they wish to be objective (e.g., judging academic performance;…”