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In a world with rampant social inequality, it's an unfortunate fact that those who have are often treated better than those without. A new study has now suggested that even one-and-a-half-year-old toddlers already show a preference for people they recognize as rich. They are also more likely to help wealthy people. Toddlers aged 11 to 13 months and 14 to 18 months were compared in the study for both an 'assisting job' and an 'evaluation task'.
So a more accurate take-home message of these studies might be that one-and-a-half-year-olds already show a bias against poor people. So, this begs the question: Where do these attitudes come from? One depressing take would be that this anti-poor bias is somehow innate - and no doubt some people will interpret the studies this way. But this is far from being the only or even the most convincing way of reading the results.
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