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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Sánchez Rodríguez, Ángel author García-Sánchez, Efraín author Willis, Guillermo B. author Rodríguez-Bailón, Rosa author 2024 [EN] Attitudes towards economic inequality are crucial to uphold structural economic inequality in democratic societies. Previous research has shown that socioeconomic status, political ideology, and the objective level of economic inequality associated with individuals’ attitudes towards economic inequality. However, some have suggested that people are aware of the individual and social features that are more functional according to the level of economic inequality. Therefore, individual predispositions such as cultural values could also predict these attitudes. In the current research, we expand previous results testing whether cultural variables at the individual level predict attitudes towards economic inequality. After analysing survey data including samples from 52 countries (N =89,565), we found that self-enhancement values predict positively, and self-transcendence negatively, attitudes towards economic inequality as the ideal economic inequality measures. This result remained significant even after controlling by socioeconomic status, political ideology, and objective economic inequality. However, this effect is only true in high and middle social mobility countries, but not in countries with low social mobility. The present research highlights how cultural values and country social mobility are crucial factors to addressing attitudes towards economic inequality. Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Á., García‐Sánchez, E., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez‐Bailón, R. (2024). Individual values predict desiring more economic inequality: The moderator role of social mobility. International Journal of Psychology, 59(3), 398-409. 0020-7594 http://hdl.handle.net/10366/166660 10.1002/ijop.13114 1464-066X Economic inequality Self-enhancement values Self-transcendence values Attitudes towards economic inequality Social mobility Individual values predict desiring more economic inequality: The moderator role of social mobility