TY - JOUR AU - Harris, Christine AU - Henniger, Nicole PY - 2013 M3 - Original Research TI - Envy, Politics, and Age JO - Frontiers in Psychology UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00067 VL - 4 SN - 1664-1078 N2 - In the last 5 years, the phrase “politics of envy” has appeared more than 621 times in English-language newspapers, generally in opinion essays contending that political liberalism reflects and exploits feelings of envy. Oddly, this assertion has not been tested empirically. We did so with a large adult sample (n = 357). Participants completed a Dispositional Envy Scale and questions about political ideology, socioeconomic status, and age. Envy and age were moderately correlated; younger people reported greater envy. Political ideology and envy were weakly correlated; however, this relationship was not significant when controlling for age. ER -