Economic Inequality

Filippi, S., Salvador Casara, B. G., Maass, A., & Suitner, C. (2026). Lost in taxation: Misunderstanding the progressive tax system undermines support for redistribution. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 36(2), e70235. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70235

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De Cristofaro, V., Cervone, C., Filippi, S., Marinucci, M., Scatolon, A., Valtorta, R. R., Vezzoli, M., & Pellegrini, V. (2025). National identity and economic inequality: New insights from disadvantaged and advantaged groups. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 35(2), e70068. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70068

Filippi, S., Cervone, C., Maass, A., Del Ben, A., & Suitner, C. (2025). Loving taxation, hating single taxes: Disentangling temporal distance and abstraction in the communication of tax proposals. European Journal of Social Psychology, 55(5), 807–823. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3170

Filippi, S., Salvador Casara, B. G., Peters, K., Maass, A., Feraco, T., & Suitner, C. (2025). They don’t really care about us: The impact of perceived vertical pay disparity on employee well-being. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 34(1), 42–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2024.2415127

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Casali, N., Filippi, S., & Feraco, T. (2024). Does inequality shape human character? Cross-cultural associations between character strengths and the Gini index in 68 countries. Journal of Happiness Studies, 25(4), 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00751-w

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Filippi, S., Salvador Casara, B. G., Pirrone, D., Yerkes, M., & Suitner, C. (2023). Economic inequality increases the number of hours worked and decreases work–life balance perceptions: longitudinal and experimental evidence. Royal Society Open Science, 10(10), 230187. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230187

Salvador Casara, B. G., Filippi, S., Suitner, C., Dollani, E., & Maass, A. (2023). Tax the élites! The role of economic inequality and conspiracy beliefs on attitudes towards taxes and redistribution intentions. British Journal of Social Psychology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12555

Scatolon, A., & Paladino, M. P. (2022) Reducing economic inequality is ‘just right’: Moral conviction predicts support for redistributive government policies. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12620

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Crimston, C. R., Selvanathan, H. P., Álvarez, B., Jetten, J., Bentley, S., Salvador Casara, B. G., … & Wibisono, S. (2022). Cracks before the crisis: Polarization prior to COVID‐19 predicts increased collective angst and economic pessimism. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Salvador Casara, B. G., Suitner, C., & Jetten, J. (2022). The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98, 104245.

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Tanjitpiyanond, P., Álvarez, B., Jetten, J., Bentley, S. V., Salvador Casara, B. G., Crimston, C. R., … & Wibisono, S. (2021). Unlocking collective cooperation in the midst of COVID‐19: The role of social support in predicting the social class disparity in cooperation. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Jetten, J., Peters, K., Álvarez, B., Salvador Casara, B. G., Dare, M., Kirkland, K., … & Mols, F. (2021). Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis. Political Psychology, 42, 241-266.