Income Inequality and its Consequences for Life Satisfaction: What Role do Social Cognitions Play?

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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, methodology): “An empirical application of this kind of approach can be found in Schneider (2012), who used German data from the 2006 wave of International Social Justice Project to consider the relationship between subjective well-being and income inequality.”
Why Inequality Makes Europeans Less Happy: The Role of Distrust, Status Anxiety, and Perceived Conflict (2014, background): “The perceived amount of inequality strongly relates to the actual level of inequality in a society (e.g. Gijsberts, 2002), and in a German sample the mismatch between perceived inequality and what an individual considers legitimate has been shown to have a negative effect on SWB (Schneider, 2012).”
The psychological consequences of income inequality (2017, background): “…hard to disentangle the psychological feelings of relative deprivation from the actual real‐world distribution of resources in understanding what creates status stress (though see Kraus, Piff, & Keltner, 2011, and a work looking at a mediating effect of perceived unfairness, e.g., Schneider, 2012).”
Why Income Inequality Is Dissatisfying—Perceptions of Social Status and the Inequality-Satisfaction Link in Europe (2019, background): “, 2015), and perceptions of inequality rather than objective inequality influence subjective well-being (Schneider, 2012; Schalembier, 2018).”