Myth Of Fact Summary

Can your social class define your ethical belief? Is it possible to define you but what you have and your ranking in society? Is it a Myth of Fact? There have been psychological and cognitive evidence that people from higher class have a higher chance of being in a higher risk of having lower unethical behaviors. Paul K. Piff and his colleagues have made extensive research about the relativeness between higher social class and unethical behaviors. Paul talk in depth about this concept in one of his articles called “ Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior”( will change citation). In this article, Paul talks about the idea that the wealthier someone gets the less ethical value they have or at least maintain. Paul with the help of his colleagues demonstrates their finding in seven experiments.

In the experiment two coders or analysts, with no type of hypotheses to the experiment, categorized and analyzed each vehicle, into the looks of a car and if they cut of the other vehicles. The results of the findings were that 29.6 percent of all the vehicles that were good looking cut off a vehicle and the vehicles right of way. In the second experiment the procurers were made, getting to coders, with not type of idea of what might happen in the experiment and followed the California code that stated that a driver must yield the right to way to any pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk (30). The coders and categorized each vehicle and found out that the 46.2 percent of the best-looking cars failed to stop to a pedestrian. This experiment showed that the upper class people with better looking cars broke the law more often that underprivileged