Ian Sample

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

Yeah, they do. matched

And there's a couple of things that came out from the interview I did with Paul on this. matched

He was saying, well, first of all, their surveys and other surveys have shown that upper class people did tend to have a more positive view of greed, or at least not see as big a moral issue with greed, you know, as in wanting to gain things for our ourselves, even when we have plenty already. matched

The other thing I thought was really interesting was that they were saying, matched

Look, we've evolved in a resource-scarce environment, okay? matched

So for humans, personal relationships, social relationships have become incredibly important. matched

If you find yourself in a life where your resources are abundant, matched

Then you kind of break that bond. matched

And and you can start behaving more well, I'm just going to behave how I want to behave, because you're not so sort of wedded to these social contracts. matched

This is speculation, but this is what they think may be underpinning why they see these results. matched

That's right. matched

That's exactly right. matched

Marie, the next award we're gonna talk about is the Peace Prize. matched

Who won that this year? matched

Okay, so we want our friends to be kind and trustworthy towards us, but we want sort of our enemies to be our friends' enemies as well, right? matched

And what the researchers want us to take away from this though? matched

Is there something you can relate to, Maddie? matched

Have you ever had anyone or a need for anyone to go into battle for you? matched

So the biomechanics prize this year went to a research team largely based at University of Oxford. matched

And they got the prize for coming up with a precise scientific definition of kissing. matched

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