November 12, 12:19 PM 
514 Chai Chee Lane 03-16, Singapore 469029 The following two-minute video is an excerpt from a longer 16-minute TED video by social psychologist Paul Piff who has spent close to a decade studying the effects of wealth on individuals and society.
One of the studies involved research subjects playing a game of Monopoly where one player is given an unfair advantage which allowed him/her to earn more money. Here's what they found:
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Posted by TED on Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Here's what Piff had to say about the 'rich' players:
"The rich player started to move around the board louder, literally smacking the board with their piece as he went around. We were more likely to see signs of dominance and nonverbal signs, displays of power and celebration among the rich players... rich players actually started to become ruder toward the other person, less and less sensitive to the plight of those poor, poor players, and more and more demonstrative of their material success, more likely to showcase how well they're doing."
Piff also stated that one insight they gleaned from this Monopoly experiment was that when asked what contributed to their success in the game, players who had the game rigged in their favour attributed their success to their own actions.
Piff then shared his observations gleaned from various studies:
As a person's levels of wealth increase, their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increases. In surveys, we found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize greed being good, and that the pursuit of self-interest is favorable and moral.
Check out some of his other findings in his full TED video, one of it may confirm the bias you have against drivers of luxury cars:
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