Writing in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Daniel J. Connolly, Nick Chater, and George Loewenstein examine what they call the political psychology of economic inequality, arguing that persistent inequality is sustained not only by institutions and incentives, but by the cognitive habits and social assumptions through which people interpret the world around them.
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