Una serie de estudios conducidos por psicologos de la Universidad de Berkeley, California, y la Universidad de Toronto en Canada encontrarosn que las personas de clase social alta, con más recursos económicos y educación, tienden a comportamientos menos éticos que las personas con menos recursos. El estudio fue encabezado por el investigador Rodolfo Mendoza Denton, profesor del Departamento de Psicología de la Universidad de Berkeley, California.

La investigación publicada en la revista Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveló que los participantes que se consideraban a sí mismos de “clase alta” tenían tendencias mayores que los de “clase baja” a tomar decisiones antiéticas.

“Llevamos a cabo siete estudios experimentales y naturalísticos, que nos llevaron a conclusiones sorprendentes, porque uno pensaría que las personas con menos recursos estarían más motivadas a comportarse de manera inmoral, antiética o aún violando la ley”, refirió el investigador de origen mexicano.

Entre esos comportamientos se cuentan la sustracción de objetos valiosos de otras personas, mentiras en una negociación, mentiras para aumentar las posibilidades de ganar un premio o el aval a una conducta incorrecta en el trabajo.

“Las conclusiones se aplican independientemente de la edad, el género, el grupo étnico, el credo religioso o la ausencia de fe religiosa, y la orientación política de los participantes”, indicó el estudio.

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tiNew Studies Determine Which Social Class More Likely to Behave Unethically

A series of studies conducted by psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Toronto in Canada reveal something the well off may not want to hear. Individuals who are relatively high in social class are more likely to engage in a variety of unethical behaviors.

Researchers: Upper-class individuals more likely to engage in unethical behaviors.
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That is the finding of new research published in today’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and it’s a doozy.

«Our studies suggest that more positive attitudes toward greed and the pursuit of self-interest among upper-class individuals, in part, drive their tendencies toward increased unethical behavior,» said lead researcher Paul Piff of UC Berkeley.

The research revealed that relative to the lower class, upper-class individuals are more likely to break the law while driving, more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies, more likely to take valued goods from others, more likely to lie in a negotiation, more likely to cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize and more likely to endorse unethical behavior at work.

«The relative privilege and security enjoyed by upper-class individuals give rise to independence from others and a prioritization of the self and one’s own welfare over the welfare of others–what we call ‘greed,'» explained Piff, whose research was funded in part by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

«This is likely to cause someone to be more inclined to break the rules in his or her favor, or to perceive themselves as, in a sense, being ‘above the law,'» he said and therefore become more prone to committing unethical behavior.

Piff and colleagues conducted seven survey, experimental and naturalistic studies to determine which social class is more likely to behave in unethical ways–to engage in behaviors that have important consequences for society such as cheating, deception or breaking the law.

In two naturalistic field studies that examined unethical behavior on the road, researchers were surprised by the differences between upper and lower class individuals. They found «upper-class drivers» were significantly more likely to pursue their own self-interests and break the law while driving than were «lower-class drivers.»

Piff and his team found drivers of higher-end automobiles were four times more likely to cut off other vehicles before waiting their turn at a busy, four-way intersection with stop signs on all sides. In addition, they found upper-class drivers were significantly more likely to drive through a crosswalk without yielding to a waiting pedestrian.

For these studies, the researchers defined social class by an observable cultural symbol of social class–namely, the car one drives.

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