article_snippet: In another recent study, Paul Piff from University of California, Berkeley Paul Piff from University of California, Berkeley brought in more than 100 pairs of strangers into the lab, and flipped a coin to assigned one of the two to be a rich player in a rigged Monopoly game.
article_snippet: The rich players collected twice the salary when The rich players passed Go, and The rich players were able to roll both dice instead of one, so The rich players got to move around the board more.
article_snippet: Hidden cameras revealed, over the course of 15 minutes, the rich player showing signs of dominance, smacking the board with Hidden cameras piece and talking loudly.
article_snippet: The rich players also became ruder toward the other person, less sensitive to the plight of the poor players, and more demonstrative of The rich players material success.
article_snippet: When The rich players talked about why The rich players had inevitably won in this rigged game of Monopoly
article_snippet: The rich players talked about what The rich players'd done to buy those different properties and earn The rich players success in the game,' Professor Piff said in a recent Ted talk. '
article_snippet: The rich players became far less attuned to all those different features of the situation, including that flip of a coin that had randomly gotten The rich players into that privileged position in the first place. '
article_snippet: The leaders had the choice of making pro or anti-social decisions - the latter resulting in awarding less money to the group but more to the leader's own earnings.
highlights_snippet: In a rigged game of monopoly, richer players were rude and dominant .
  