By Carissa Wong.
There are large houses by a lake.
The images are from Edwin Remsberg.
Even if they would benefit from the policies, people from privileged groups may think they are harmful.
In zero-sum scenarios where there are limited resources, advantaged people don't support interventions that redistribute their resources to others who are disadvantaged.
The degree to which people from advantaged groups think equality-promoting policies would harm their access to resources has been explored by researchers.
The University of California, Berkeley conducted a series of studies involving more than 4,000 volunteers.
In one study, they presented white people who weren't Hispanic with policies that didn't affect their own advantaged group and benefited a disadvantaged group that they didn't belong to.
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