How to promote cooperation in an unequal society : Extending the findings of studies of basic psychological process to prescriptive studies.

这项研究考察了人们对弱势群体态度的决定因素。更具体地说，它侧重于提供支持的意图和对政府干预以减少不平等的态度。此外，本研究还探讨了社会心理学知识对解决不平等等现实世界问题的贡献，以及运用社会心理学知识所涉及的伦理问题，以及规范研究的方法论，其主旨是为社会制度规划提供实践指导，以解决我们社会中的问题。

This study examined the determinants of attitudes toward under-privileged. More specifically, it focuses on the intention of support provision and attitude toward the governmental intervention to reduce the inequality. Furthermore, the study discusses the contribution of social psychological knowledge to solve the real world problems such as inequality, the ethical issues concerning the application of the knowledge, and the methodology of the prescriptive studies whose major thrust is to provide with the practical guidance for social system planning to solve the problems in our society.