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Can toddlers help explain the origins of our bias for wealth? - Berkeley News

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University of Berkeley study: Prejudices for those with more resources can be traced to beliefs formed as young as 14 months .

Researchers say a preference for richer people may not necessarily be driven by kids’ positive evaluations of them.

Instead, it might be caused by a negative assessment of those with less.

Arianne Eason and her co-authors say their work shows that undoing wealth inequality will require a concentrated effort among adults to change the way young children think about and act toward poorer people.

Eason : "These are early-ingrained tendencies. That means we have to work hard to undo them and put in a lot of concerted effort".

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