People with less money may be more likely to share their wealth than the rich, according to a new study

• A new study suggests that people may contribute more to society when they have less wealth themselves.
• People who "earned" more wealth, rather than being assigned it at random, were the least likely to give money.
• Although this may not be anything to do with the level of empathy, the researchers said.
• Rather, it could be because less wealthy people have more to gain from everyone else contributing.

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People who earn more money may be less likely to share their wealth than those who earn less. That's according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London, published in the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Researchers conducted a social experiment where people were recruited to play games for real money. People were assigned as "lower status" or "higher status," which determined how much money they were given at the beginning — signifying wealth.

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