August 12, 2025

Inequality in People's Minds: An Integrative Psychological Framework of Perceptions of Economic Inequality.

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Main finding highlights the importance of people's perceptions of economic inequality in influencing their political attitudes.
The framework identifies five psychological processes involved in forming perceptions of inequality: access, attention, comprehension, motivated processing, and representation.
This work uses insights from psychology to provide a structured approach for researchers studying economic inequality.
Understanding these perceptions can help address community-specific inequality challenges more effectively.

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This framework reveals how perceptions of economic inequality shape political attitudes and social behavior.

Phillips et al. (2025) studied this question.

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