Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 The Politics of Social Comparison 1
4. Part I. Imagining the Economic Other
5. 2 Inequality in the Social Mind 13
6. 3 Revealing the Social Mind 32
7. 4 The Disadvantaged Other 42
8. 5 The Advantaged Other 67
9. Part II. Responding to the Economic Other
10. 6 Social Comparison and Status Perceptions 91
11. 7 Social Comparison and Support for Redistribution 108
12. Part III. Insulated from Inequality
13. 8 Why Americans Don’t Look Up 125
14. 9 Why Americans Would Rather Look Down 155
15. 10 How Looking Up Keeps Us Down 169
16. 11 The Power of Social Comparison 184
17. Acknowledgments 203
18. Appendix 207
19. Notes 219
20. References 249
21. Index 271