The effect of financial status on commercial treatment expectation and evaluation of targets with anthropomorphic features

The present research suggests that perceived financial status moderates people’s expectation about how a social agent would treat them. The different social treatment expectations that people infer from a social target, contingent upon their perceived financial status, consequently lead to the different assessment on a target with human features. Abstract taken from p.225 of MPA 2017 program https://mpa.wildapricot.org/resources/Programs/2017%20MPA%20PROGRAM%204%2027%2017.pdf