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[quote=Anonymous]OP Here.

Wow, I had no idea how defensive people were about this subject.  I don't know why so many posters are threatened by this.  And precious few of the critical posts have anything to do with the research.  The only one that did pointed out that automobile make and model is not a perfect proxy for wealth, but she avoided discussiong the other studies, of which there are a total of seven if you go to the study itself.

If you have so little willingness to reflect or to respond to the substance, I'd say it reflects the basic truth of the research more powerfully than the studies themselves.

For those that care, the study is not available without subscription, but they provided supporting information on the study here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/21/1118373109/suppl/DCSupplemental

Lastly, my conclusion prior to the descent of the angry posters was that the issue is not what the wealthy lack as much as what the poorer people have, namely increased empathy and increased respect for smaller amounts of money.

Increased empathy means that they are less likely to like about the duration of the job because they internalize how scary it would be for that person to be unemployed in six months and thus could not intentionally lie about a job's duration.

And as for respect for smaller amounts of money, I think that they have a tougher time lying to get a $50 gift card because to them it is a lot of money, maybe 6 hours of labor.  That's a decent shift at a grocery store. [/quote]

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