Thursday, June 26, 2014

Weird Philanthropic Science

People who feel ugly are almost twice as likely to be willing to donate to a social inequality movement like Occupy. Those are the findings of research done at Stanford and reported on the Campus Reform website. Hat tip to Instapundit for the link.

It turns out how attractive one feels is related to one's self-perception of social status. More attractiveness equals higher status equals less need to level the playing field, at least among college sophomores.