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We support open science and reproducibility. As standard practice we share all of our materials, measures, and data (when possible) with researchers. Interested parties should email Dr. Paul Piff with inquiries.

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2023-current

 

• Koo, H. J., Piff, P. K., Moskowitz, J. P., & Shariff, A. F. (in press). System circumvention: Dishonest‐illegal transgressions are perceived as justified in non‐meritocratic societies. British Journal of Social Psychology.

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• Koo, H. J., Piff, P. K., & Shariff, A. F. (2023). If I could do it, so can they: Among the rich, those with humbler origins are less sensitive to the difficulties of the poor. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 14, 333-341.

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• Celniker, J. B., Ditto, P. H., Piff, P. K., & Shariff, A. F. (2023). Signals of discipline and puritanical challenges to liberty. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 46.

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• Celniker, J. B., Gregory, A., Koo, H. J., Piff, P. K., Ditto, P. H., & Shariff, A. F. (2023). The moralization of effort. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 60-79.

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• Gregory, A. L., Quoidbach, J., Haase, C. M., & Piff, P. K. (2023). Be here now: Perceptions of uncertainty enhance savoring. Emotion, 23, 30-40.

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2022

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• Goldy, S. P., & Piff, P. K. (2022). Imaginary worlds are awesome: Awe provides a key to understanding the individual and social functions of imaginary worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e284.

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• Joye, Y., Brosnahan, D., & Piff, P. K. (2022). The geography of goodwill: Recreational engagement with nature predicts prosociality across US states. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3, 100067

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• Goldy, S. P., Jones, N. M., & Piff, P. K. (2022). The social effects of an awesome solar eclipse. Psychological Science, 9567976221085500.

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• Piff, P. K., Dietze, P., & Ceballos, R. M. (2022). Personal and social means can be (but need not be) opposing: The case of social class. Psychological Inquiry, 33(1), 30–34.

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• Thomas, A. J., Mitchell, V., Sumner, E., Terrizzi, B. F., Piff, P. K., & Sarnecka, B. W. (2022). Intuitive Sociology: Children Recognize Decision-Making Structures and Prefer Groups With Less-Concentrated Power. Open Mind, 6, 25–40.

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2021​

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• Martherus, J. L., Martinez, A. G., Piff, P. K., & Theodoridis, A. G. (2021). Party animals? Extreme partisan polarization and dehumanization. Political Behavior, 43(2), 517–540.

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• Gregory, A. L., & Piff, P. K. (2021). Finding uncommon ground: Extremist online forum engagement predicts integrative complexity. Plos One, 16(1), e0245651.

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• Wiwad, D., Mercier, B., Piff, P. K., Shariff, A., & Aknin, L. B. (2021). Recognizing the Impact of Covid-19 on the Poor Alters Attitudes Towards Poverty and Inequality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, 104083.

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2019-2020

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• Piff, P. K., Wiwad, D., Robinson, A. R., Aknin, L. B., Mercier, B., & Shariff, A. (2020). Shifting attributions for poverty motivates opposition to inequality and enhances egalitarianism. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(5), 496-505.

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• Keltner, D., & Piff, P. K. (2020). Self-Transcendent Awe as a Moral Grounding of Wisdom. Psychological Inquiry, 31(2), 160-163.

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• Joye, Y., Bolderdijk, J. W., & Piff, P. K. (2020). A diminishment of desire: Exposure to nature relative to urban environments dampens materialism. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 54, 126783.

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• Park, L. E., Jung, H. Y., Lee, K. S., Ward, D. E., Piff, P. K., Whillans, A. V., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2020). Psychological pathways linking income inequality in adolescence to well-being in adulthood. Self and Identity, 1-33.

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• Mercier, B., Wiwad, D., Piff, P. K., Aknin, L. B., Robinson, A. R., & Shariff, A. (2020). Does Belief in Free Will Increase Support for Economic Inequality? Collabra: Psychology, 6(1).

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• Goldy, S. P., & Piff, P. K. (2020). Toward a social ecology of prosociality: Why, when, and where nature enhances social connection. Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 27-31.

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• Martherus, J. L., Martinez, A. G., Piff, P. K., & Theodoridis, A. G. (2019). Party animals? Extreme partisan polarization and dehumanization. Political Behavior, 1-24.
   

• Wiwad, D., Mercier, B., Maraun, M. D., Robinson, A. R., Piff, P. K., Aknin, L. B., & Shariff, A. F. (2019). The Support for Economic Inequality Scale: Development and adjudication. PLOS ONE, 14(6), e0218685.

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• Hamilton, R., Thompson, D., Bone, S., Chaplin, L. N., Griskevicius, V., Goldsmith, K., ... Piff, P. K.,, Roux, C., Shah, A., & Zhu, M. (2019). The effects of scarcity on consumer decision journeys. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences, 47, 532-550.

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2016-2018​

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• Piff, P. K., & Moskowitz, J. (2018). Wealth, poverty, and happiness: Social class is differentially associated with positive emotions. Emotion, 18(6), 902-905.
   

• Piff, P. K., Kraus, M. W., & Keltner, D. (2018). Unpacking the inequality paradox: Psychological roots of inequality and social class. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 57, 53-124.
   

• Stellar, J. E., Gordon, A., Anderson, C. L., Piff, P. K., McNeil, G. D., & Keltner, D. (2018). Awe and humility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(2), 258-269.
   

• Venhoeven, L., Taufik, D., Steg, L., Bonaiuto, M., Bonnes, M., Ariccio, S., ... Piff, P. K., Zhang, J. W., & Keltner, D. (2018). The role of nature and environment in behavioural medicine. In Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health: The role of nature in improving the health of a population (pp. 89-94). Oxford University Press.
   

• Piff, P. K., & Robinson, A. R. (2017). Social class and prosocial behavior: Current evidence, caveats, and questions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 18, 6-10.
   

• Piff, P. K., & Moskowitz, J. (2017). The class-compassion gap: How socioeconomic factors influence compassion. In E. Seppala, J. Doty, M. Worline, D. Cameron, S. Brown, & E. Simon-Thomas (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science (pp. 317-330). Oxford University Press.
   

• Côté, S., Kraus, M. W., Carpenter, N. C., Piff, P. K., Beermann, U., & Keltner, D. (2017). Social affiliation in same-class and cross-class interactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(2), 269-285.

 

• Stellar, J. E., Gordon, A. M., Piff, P. K., Cordaro, D., Anderson, C. L., Bai, Y., Maruskin, L. A., & Keltner, D. (2017). Self-transcendent emotions and their social functions: Compassion, gratitude, and awe bind us to others through prosociality. Emotion Review, 9(3), 200-207.
   

• Robinson, A. R., & Piff, P. K. (2017). Deprived, but not depraved: Prosocial behavior is an adaptive response to lower socioeconomic status. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 40-41. 
   

• Piff, P. K., Stancato, D. M., & Horberg, E. J. (2016). Wealth and wrongdoing: Social class differences in ethical reasoning and behavior. In J.-W. Van Prooijen & P.A.M. van Lange (Eds.), Cheating, Corruption, and Concealment: The Roots of Dishonest Behavior (pp. 185-207). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
   

• Cardel, M. I., Johnson, S. L., Beck, J., Dhurandhar, E., Keita, A. D., Tomczik, A. C., Pavela, G., Huo, T., Janicke, D. M., Muller, K., Piff, P. K., Peters, J. C., Hill, J. O., & Allison, D. B. (2016). The effects of experimentally manipulated social status on acute eating behavior: A randomized, crossover pilot study. Physiology & Behavior, 162(1), 93-101.

 

2013-2015

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• Piff, P. K., Dietze, P., Feinberg, M., Stancato, D. M., & Keltner, D. (2015). Awe, the small self, and prosocial behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 883-899.

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• Piff, P. K., & Keltner, D. (2015). Why do we experience awe? The New York Times, p. SR10.

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• Yearwood, M. H., Cuddy, A., Lamba, N., Youyou, W., van der Lowe, I., Piff, P. K., Gronin, C., Fleming, P., Simon-Thomas, E., Keltner, D., & Kogan, A. (2015). On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends. Personality and Individual Differences, 87, 224-229.

 

• Piff, P. K. (2014). Wealth and the inflated self: Class, entitlement, and narcissism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 34-43.

 

• Keltner, D., Kogan, A., Piff, P. K., & Saturn, S. (2014). The sociocultural appraisals, values, and emotions (SAVE) framework of prosociality: Core processes from gene to meme. Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 425-460.

 

• Zhang, J. W., Piff, P. K., Keltner, D., Iyer, R., & Koleva, S. (2014). An occasion for unselfing: Beautiful nature leads to prosociality. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 37, 61-72.

 

• Côté, S., Piff, P. K., & Willer, R. (2013). For whom do the ends justify the means? Social class and utilitarian moral judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 490-503.

 

• Saslow, L. R., John, O. P., Piff, P. K., Willer, R., Wong, E., Impett, E. A., Kogan, A., Antonenko, O., Clark, K., Feinberg, M., Oveis, C., Keltner, D., & Saturn, S. R. (2013). The social significance of spirituality: New perspectives on the compassion-altruism relationship. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 5, 201-218.

 

2011-2012

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• Piff, P. K., Stancato, D. M., Martinez, A. G., Kraus, M. W., & Keltner, D. (2012). Class, chaos, and the construction of community. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 949-962.

 

• Piff, P. K., Stancato, D. M., Côté, S., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Keltner, D. (2012). Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 4086-4091.

 

• Piff, P. K., Stancato, D. M., Côté, S., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Keltner, D. (2012). Reply to Francis: Cumulative power calculations are faulty when based on observed power and a small sample of studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, E1588.

 

• Piff, P. K., Purcell, A., Gruber, J., Hertenstein, M. J., & Keltner, D. (2012). Contact high: Mania proneness and positive perception of emotional touches. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 1116-1123.

 

• Piff, P. K., Martinez, A. G., & Keltner, D. (2012). Me against we: Ingroup transgression, collective shame, and ingroup-directed hostility. Cognition & Emotion, 26, 634-649.

 

• Kraus, M. W., Piff, P. K., Mendoza-Denton, R., Rheinschmidt, M. L., & Keltner, D. (2012). Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: How the rich are different from the poor. Psychological Review, 119, 546-572.

 

• Saslow, L. R., Willer, R., Feinberg, M., Piff, P. K., Clark, K., Keltner, D., Saturn, S. (2012). My brother’s keeper? Compassion predicts generosity more among less religious individuals. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 31-38.

 

• Piff, P. K., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2012). Mixed signals: Culture and construal in the provision of feedback across group boundaries. In R. M. Sutton, M. J. Hornsey, & K. M. Douglas (Eds.), Feedback: Handbook of Praise, Criticism, and Advice (pp. 89-104). New York: Peter Lang.

 

• Kraus, M. W., Rheinschmidt, M. L., & Piff, P. K. (2012). The intersection of rank and resources: Signaling social class in face-to-face encounters. In S. T. Fiske & H. R. Markus (Eds.), Facing Social Class (pp. 152-172). New York: Russell Sage.

 

• Keltner, D., & Piff, P. K. (2012). Greed prevents good. The New York Times. The Opinion Page.

 

• Kraus, M. W., Piff, P. K., & Keltner, D. (2011). Social class as culture: The convergence of resources and rank in the social realm. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 246-250.

 

• Martinez, A. G., Piff, P. K., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Hinshaw, S. P. (2011). The power of a label: Mental illness diagnoses, ascribed humanity, and social rejection. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 30, 1-23.

 

2010 and earlier

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• Piff, P. K., Kraus, M. W., Côté, S., Cheng, B. H., & Keltner, D. (2010). Having less, giving more: The influence of social class on prosocial behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 771-784.

 

• Kraus, M. W., Piff, P. K., & Keltner, D. (2009). Socioeconomic status, the sense of control, and social explanation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 992-1004.

 

• Neuringer, A., Jensen, G., & Piff, P. K. (2007). Stochastic matching and the voluntary nature of choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 88, 1-28.

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