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| Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the face of sufferingAnwar, Yasminhttp://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/19/classandincome/ 
 Publisher:  UC Berkeley
 Date Written:  19/12/2011
 Year Published:  2011
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 Researchers have found that people in the lower socio-economic classes are more physiologically attuned to suffering, and quicker to express compassion than their more affluent counterparts. By comparison, individuals in the upper middle and upper classes were less able to detect and respond to the distress signals of others.
 
 
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