I choose to be powerful: Economic inequality encourages preferences of power over status positions

People living in unequal societies tend to worry about their social status. In this paper, we argue that inequality may have a greater impact on a similar but conceptually different process: choice for power. For this purpose, we conducted two experimental preregistered studies in which inequality within a fictional society was manipulated. Afterwards, we measured the degree of preference and choice for a job with either power or status. We...