Eriksson, Kimmo; Simpson, Brent - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 6, pp. 741-745
A recent survey of inequality (Norton and Ariely, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 9-12) asked respondents to indicate what percent of the nation's total wealth is---and should be---controlled by richer and poorer quintiles of the U.S. population. We show that such measures lead to...