The Dangers of Visible Inequality: A new study shows that the wealthy are less benevolent when they know just how poor their neighbors are.

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The Dangers of Visible Inequality: A new study shows that the wealthy are less benevolent when they know just how poor their neighbors are.

Wednesday, September 9, 2015
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Many commentators have pointed to disturbances in Ferguson and elsewhere over the past year as proof that economic inequality leads to tensions and even violence. But new research out from the Human Nature Lab at the Yale Institute for Network Science suggests that it’s not the presence of inequality that causes problems, but rather the visibility of that inequality. Click here to read more.

Click here to read the paper published in Nature.

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