Why people prefer unequal societies

By Christina Starmans, Mark Sheskin, P. Bloom. 2017

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An Intersectional Definition of Fairness (2018, background): “lgorithm may have different distributions depending on the protected attributes; a phenomenon known as infra-marginality [32]. Consequently, equity may not always correspond to fairness, as deﬁned by [34]. It is also important to connect fairness and bias in algorithms to the broader context of fair”
Populism and the economics of globalization (2018, background): “Three psychologists have recently provided interesting support for this idea (Starmans et al., 2017).”
Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “Recent work suggests that what drives much of the discomfort with inequality is the unfairness implied by wide discrepancies in resources (Day & Fiske, 2017; Starmans et al., 2017).”
How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research (2018, background): “There is evidence in the behavioral sciences that people are more concerned with ‘fairness’ than equality (Starmans et al 2017).”