Sentence examples for upper-class individuals from inspiring English sources

Of those, more than 8,000 were "informed elites" (college-educated, middle- or upper-class individuals).

Taken together, these findings suggest that upper-class individuals may underestimate the distress and suffering in their social environments.

The published methodology notes that of this number, 12,396 were considered "informed elites" — meaning they were college-educated, middle- or upper-class individuals — and 6,489 were business decision-makers.

For this reason, heartless folk might assume that people in the lower social classes will be more self-interested and less inclined to consider the welfare of others than upper-class individuals, who can afford a certain noblesse oblige.

Finally, in a fourth study, lower-class individuals were more likely than upper-class individuals to help "partners" (in reality, confederates to the experiments) who arrived to the experiment "late" and appeared to be distressed.

"The increased unethical tendencies of upper-class individuals are driven, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed," said Paul Piff, a doctoral student in psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of the paper published on Feb. 27 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

When, after many repetitions, Miss Doolittle's pronunciation approaches that of an upper-class individual, Professor Higgins exclaims, "I think she's got it!

Lower class participants allocated more of their money to their anonymous partners than did upper class individuals, who kept more for themselves.

Paul Piff and his co-authors, who have done extended research on the behaviors of the wealthy, find that lower class individuals are more generous, charitable, trusting and helpful than upper class individuals.

Last year, Paul Piff caused quite a stir when he published his finding that, upper class individuals were, more likely to break driving laws, take goods from others, lie in a negotiation, cheat and endorse unethical behaviour (this, of course, stands at odd with Charles Murray's rather naive belief that the rich are rich because of their superior moral scruples).

Stable isotope analysis showed adequate mixed carnivore-herbivore nutrition, comparable to that of contemporaneous upper class individuals.