Ian Sample

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Science Weekly · Are rich people really worse behaved? Here’s the science · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Encourage you to think about creativity in science. matched

Like what might science be able to tell us about the world? matched

I really like that aspect of it. matched

But the thing is, it's just an enormous hoot, right? matched

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Because this is um a ceremony where you have bona fide Nobel laureates handing out prizes to these researchers who come on stage and then they have to describe their work in 24 seconds and then in seven words. matched

So they called the 20. matched

Lectures, you know, they get um a $10 trillion bill as their prize, but it's actually from Zimbabwe's era of hyperinflation, and that note's been phased out. matched

It's worthless apart from to collectors. matched

And you know, the physical prize this year was this sort of horrible blue cheese shape with a foot on top and a mushroom sprouting out and toes coming up between the toes, quite grotesque. matched

prize and when people go up and get their prizes people are throwing paper airplanes and it's just a big old fun bash. matched

So this prize went to researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and the researcher I spoke to there was Dr. matched

Paul Piff. matched

And they were really interested in this question, which actually scholars have been looking at for literally millennia, as to whether you get sort of more or less ethical behavior depending on your class. matched

So in this research, the scientists use these terms sort of upper and lower class. matched

What they mean is um when you get people to either self-rate their class or you look at their wealth and their sort of social economic status, you can rank them relative to each other. matched

So some will be sort of higher up that scale than others. matched

And in the research, that's what they call them, sort of upper and lower class, but it's all relative. matched

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And there's some reasons to think, well, you know, lower class people, if you've got fewer resources, there's maybe more incentive to behave unethically to try and overcome. matched

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