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There could be an element of self-interest in poor people's support for charity:

> They found that both real lower-class participants and those temporarily induced to rank themselves as lower class felt that a greater share of a person’s salary should be used to support charity.

They could on some level see themselves as beneficiaries of charity, and be more charity-minded themselves to avoid cognitive dissonance.



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