Individual Differences in (Mis)perceptions of Economic Inequality: The Role of Ideology, Abstraction, News Consumption and Rationality
The aim of this study was to investigate how and why people misperceive the magnitude of economic differences. It was hypothesized that news consumption frequency, rationality and abstract-mindedness would predict accuracy in estimations of economic differences; and that economic ideology motivation would predict inaccuracy in estimations of economic differences. Moreover, it was hypothesized that