Ian Sample

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

Become your disadvantage to try and get more resources. matched

But there's also, you know, a lot of evidence that it actually works the other way as well. matched

Plato and Aristotle thought that greed was at the root of personal immorality. matched

And we don't need to look far to see examples of this. matched

So this research, they had seven separate experiments to just look at, okay, in these seven situations that we're contriving. matched

or even not contriving in some examples, who behaves more ethically? matched

And it turned out that actually across the board in these studies it was the upper class who made these ethical infringements. matched

Yeah, and I totally take that criticism. matched

It's one of those reasons where you look at the research and it just makes you laugh because you think, I suspect a lot of people would think this may be the case, right? matched

And obviously the findings they have are purely those findings from the studies, and you know, how people behave is broader than you're ever going to cover in seven studies. matched

But they did a whole bunch of different things. matched

They had two studies looking at how drivers behaved. matched

You know, this isn't um, you know, a watertight way of matched

Doing obviously, but they were assessing people's um sort of social economic status, what sort of class they were at relatively by the type of car they were driving. matched

But what they did find was that people in these sort of more flashier cars, they would be sort of, I suppose we call them worse drivers. matched

But in the examples, they were they were cutting off other drivers at junctions more often than the lower class people or the people in the lower class cars. matched

And they were also doing this thing that we see all the time. matched

is just driving over pedestrian crossings when there's clearly people waiting. matched

Uh that sort of matched

I need to be matched

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