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07-12-2017, 06:53 PM
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Let them be equal, but **t too equal!
This may explain why social imbalances persists despite humanity´s best intentions to help the poor among us, they wrote in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. It seems we are hard-wired to follow an inner dictum: "Help thy neighbour -- but only so much." In lab experiments, the research team asked participants to redistribute small amounts of money that had been unequally divided among people they did **t k**w. The participants tended to smooth out the worst disparities by shifting money around, the team found, but **t e**ugh to turn the tables of fortune. Participants baulked when "winners become losers and losers become winners," the authors concluded. Many previous studies have found that humans, generally, are deeply uncomfortable with social inequality. The new research by Chinese and American researchers was an attempt to understand why social disparities remain despite this apparently compassionate propensity. The team tested more than 1,000 people -- children and adults -- from different cultural backgrounds. The participants were from India, China, the United States, and included a group of Tibetan herders who live isolated from modern society. Each trial participant was asked to look at a number of screens, each of which displayed the portraits of two people with a pile of coins attributed to each. One person always had a higher pile than the other. أكثر... 
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