MONEY IN THE MENTAL LIVES OF THE POOR

被引：150

作者：

Shah, Anuj K. ^{[1
]}

Zhao, Jiaying ^{[2
]}

Mullainathan, Sendhil ^{[3
]}

Shafir, Eldar ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[2] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[3] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[4] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

来源：

SOCIAL COGNITION | 2018年 / 36卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

scarcity; money; spontaneous thoughts; financial concerns; attention; POVERTY; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; ATTENTION; RESPONSES; ACCESS; RECALL; PRICE;

D O I：

10.1521/soco.2018.36.1.4

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

010107 [宗教学];

摘要：

Recent research has studied how resource scarcity draws attention and creates cognitive load. As a result, scarcity improves some dimensions of cognitive function, while worsening others. Still, there remains a fundamental question: how does scarcity influence the content of cognition? In this article, we find that poor individuals (i.e., those facing monetary scarcity) see many everyday experiences through a different lens. Specifically, thoughts about cost and money are triggered by mundane circumstances, they are difficult to suppress, they change mental associations, and they interfere with other experiences. We suggest that the poor see an economic dimension to many everyday experiences that to others may not appear economic at all.

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