Problem: Study 3 extended these findings (related to social class & ethical decision making) by using a more direct measure of social class and assessing tendencies toward a variety of unethical decisions. Participants read eight different scenarios that implicated an actor in unrightfully taking or benefiting from something, and reported the likelihood that they would engage in the behavior described (16). Participants also reported their social class using the MacArthur scale of subjective SES (2). This measure parallels objective, resource-based measures of social class in its relationship to health (2), social cognition (4), and interpersonal behavior (7). As hypothesized, social class positively predicted unethical decision-making tendencies, even after controlling for ethnicity, sex, and age, b = 0.13, SE b = 0.06, t (103) = 2.05, P < 0.04. These results suggest that upper-class individuals are more likely to exhibit tendencies to act unethically compared with lower-class individuals.

Questions:

- Is this study experimental or correlational? Quasi-experimental? How do you know?

- Indicate the number of levels for the true independent and quasi independent variables.

- Indicate whether the true independent and quasi independent variables were within-subjects, between subjects, or matched subjects.