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T1 When and How Information About Economic Inequality Affects Attitudes Towards Redistribution
A1 Sánchez Rodríguez, Ángel
A1 García Sánchez, Efraín
A1 Montoya Lozano, Mar
A1 Velandia Morales, Andrea
A1 Muelas Lobato, Roberto
K1 Economic inequality
K1 Political ideology
K1 Elaboration likelihood model
K1 System justification
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB Perceived economic inequality is positively associated with public support for policies to reduce it. However, providing information about economic inequality doesnot necessarily motivate people to support redistributive policies. This inconsistency may be due to how people interpret the information about inequality. Weargue that the interpretation of information about inequality difers between individuals as a function of the characteristics of the source and people’s ideologies.We conducted two experiments using an exploratory (N=239) and confrmatory(N=707) strategy. We found that attitudes toward redistribution increased when aseemingly neutral international institution (as opposed to a left-wing political party)provided information about economic inequality due to the credibility attributed tothe source—but not due to power and familiarity. Moreover, the efect of providing information about inequality on support for redistribution (via source credibility)depended on people’s ideologies: it was positive and statistically signifcant for people who held more (vs. less) system-justifying beliefs. These fndings contribute tounderstanding the interplay between social psychological processes, communicationstrategies, and attitudes toward redistribution.
PB Springer
SN 0885-7466
YR 2024
FD 2024-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9918
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9918
LA eng
NO The present research was supported by the University of Granada [Grant No. PPJIB2018.08]
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 21-ene-2025