Relative Deprivation
By Heather J. Smith, T. Pettigrew, Gina M. Pippin, Silvana Bialosiewicz. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2012
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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Feeling superior or deprived? Attitudes and underlying mentalities of residents towards Mainland Chinese tourists (2018, background): “On the one hand, they may 24 feel that they do not possess what they deserve (Smith et al., 2012) and attribute their deficiency 25”
- Status Concerns as a Motive for Crime? (2015, background): “…discrepancy resulting from a comparison of wealth or status) is an important cause of strain and may be a powerful motivator of crime (see, e.g., Young 2006); empirical work has shown that people are more likely to engage in crime when they experience a sense of relative deprivation (see, e.g.,…”
- Building a Tower of Babel? Integrating Core Motivations and Features of Social Structure into the Political Psychology of Political Action (2016, background): “This is important because approaches like relative deprivation theory (e.g., Runciman, 1966; H. J. Smith et al., 2012) suggest that felt anger toward a relevant outgroup about unfair ingroup deprivation should predict collective action (Van Zomeren et al., 2004).”
- Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour (2015, background): “People also tend to make social comparisons and evaluate their own performance, possessions and wellbeing not in absolute terms, but relative to others [77,78].”
- Positional deprivation and support for radical right and radical left parties* (2018, result): “It is also in line with the empirical finding that general happiness, life satisfaction and perceptions of wellbeing more broadly are as or more strongly influenced by relative as by absolute material-economic position (Clark and Oswald 1996; Smith et al. 2012).”