@article{ref1,
title="Belief in social mobility mitigates hostility resulting from disadvantaged social standing",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2019",
author="Sagioglou, Christina and Forstmann, Matthias and Greitemeyer, Tobias",
volume="45",
number="4",
pages="541-556",
abstract="Comparing economically unfavorably with similar others has detrimental consequences for an individual, ultimately resulting in low physical health, delinquency, and hostility. In four studies ( N = 2,032), we examined whether believing in a mobile society-one offering fair chances and opportunity-mitigates hostile emotions resulting from disadvantaged social standing. We find that with increasing mobility belief, negative comparisons have gradually less impact on hostility. Specifically, measured (Studies 1 and 4) and manipulated (Studies 2 and 3) social mobility belief moderated the link between induced high versus low social status, experiencing relative deprivation, and hostile affect. A positive outcome on the surface, social mobility belief may indirectly contribute to the maintenance of social inequality by appeasing anger about perceived injustice.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/0146167218789073",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167218789073"
}