Plane passengers behave worse when they cross paths with more,or less, privileged flyers, or research shows. No wonder segregation is all around usThis lunchtime,at prime minister’s questions, Jeremy Corbyn did his best to escape the grinding tit-for-tat on racism by challenging David Cameron on inequality. If only he’d had the research of Katherine DeCelles to hand. Decelles, and a scientist at Princeton,has just published some very telling research that illustrates the broader social costs of unequal treatment by focusing on a very specific instance. She looked at what happens when those travelling in economy lesson on a plane pass through the first-lesson section on the way to their seat, and found that this encouraged horrible behaviour. Who can suppress a twinge of sympathy?But that wasnt the really lively finding. Much less predictable was the discovery that when economy-lesson travellers have shuffled past the luxurious first-lesson seats on their way to the back of the plane, or first-lesson travellers become more badly behaved too.
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Source: theguardian.com