The Danger of Bias Blindness - Barry's Economics
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Why isn't Inequality being addressed despite it being clear and visible - why are the voices of those who are raising it are getting ignored?
It can be incredibly confusing when the evidence of inequality is all around us and yet it is ignored by people in power.
Sometime the reasons can be in in plain sight but hard to truly see - but when I saw this interview with Gary Stevenson on The Rest is Politics saw a bias so clearly I had to unpick it.
@garyseconomics
@restispoliticsPodcast
If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/iD2sPL7k98c?si=ucrie3yRKY6HkuzD
I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality - the bias' that keep us trapped in systems that don't work.
📌 Subscribe for future videos: / @barryseconomics
🌐 More about me: https://barryferns.co.uk/
📩 Contact / Collaborations: mrbarryferns@gmail.com
🙏 If you’re new to this, check out Gary’s Economics first – his channel gives the structural and financial perspective of economics: / @garyseconomics
Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eq...
#BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality #BehaviouralEconomics #SocialJustice #BarryFerns #ComedyWithDepth
THE STUDIES REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO:
These are the main studies showing that people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds tend to read and display emotions more keenly than those from higher/elite backgrounds:
Kraus, Côté & Keltner (2010) – Social class, contextualism, and empathic accuracy
Found lower-class participants were better at reading emotions across tests and real-life interactions.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610387613
Stellar, Manzo, Kraus & Keltner (2012) – Class and compassion: Socioeconomic factors predict responses to suffering
Lower-class participants showed greater compassion and stronger physiological responses when watching suffering.
https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026508
Dietze & Knowles (2021) – Social class predicts emotion perception and perspective-taking performance in adults
Higher-class participants did worse on perspective-taking and the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test; lower-class did better.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220929825
Kraus & Keltner (2009) – Signs of socioeconomic status: A thin-slicing approach
Upper-class participants showed more disengaged nonverbal behavior (less eye contact, nodding, laughter). Lower-class displayed more engaged emotional cues.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02251.x
Manstead (2018) – The psychology of social class: How socioeconomic status impacts thought, feelings, and behaviour
Review of the research: lower social class → more interdependent, contextual, and emotionally attuned.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12251
Why isn't Inequality being addressed despite it being clear and visible - why are the voices of those who are raising it are getting ignored?
It can be incredibly confusing when the evidence of inequality is all around us and yet it is ignored by people in power.
Sometime the reasons can be in in plain sight but hard to truly see - but when I saw this interview with Gary Stevenson on The Rest is Politics saw a bias so clearly I had to unpick it.
@garyseconomics
@restispoliticsPodcast
If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/iD2sPL7k98c?si=ucrie3yRKY6HkuzD
I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality - the bias' that keep us trapped in systems that don't work.
📌 Subscribe for future videos: / @barryseconomics
🌐 More about me: https://barryferns.co.uk/
📩 Contact / Collaborations: mrbarryferns@gmail.com
🙏 If you’re new to this, check out Gary’s Economics first – his channel gives the structural and financial perspective of economics: / @garyseconomics
Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eq...
#BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality #BehaviouralEconomics #SocialJustice #BarryFerns #ComedyWithDepth
THE STUDIES REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO:
These are the main studies showing that people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds tend to read and display emotions more keenly than those from higher/elite backgrounds:
Kraus, Côté & Keltner (2010) – Social class, contextualism, and empathic accuracy
Found lower-class participants were better at reading emotions across tests and real-life interactions.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610387613
Stellar, Manzo, Kraus & Keltner (2012) – Class and compassion: Socioeconomic factors predict responses to suffering
Lower-class participants showed greater compassion and stronger physiological responses when watching suffering.
https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026508
Dietze & Knowles (2021) – Social class predicts emotion perception and perspective-taking performance in adults
Higher-class participants did worse on perspective-taking and the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test; lower-class did better.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220929825
Kraus & Keltner (2009) – Signs of socioeconomic status: A thin-slicing approach
Upper-class participants showed more disengaged nonverbal behavior (less eye contact, nodding, laughter). Lower-class displayed more engaged emotional cues.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02251.x
Manstead (2018) – The psychology of social class: How socioeconomic status impacts thought, feelings, and behaviour
Review of the research: lower social class → more interdependent, contextual, and emotionally attuned.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12251
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