Why people prefer unequal societies

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Nature Human Behaviour

• Publication date

  2017-04-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1038/s41562-017-0082
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