Journal
SOCIAL COGNITION
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 4-19Publisher
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2018.36.1.4
Keywords
scarcity; money; spontaneous thoughts; financial concerns; attention
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [0933497]
- Sloan Foundation [2014-6-16]
- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1426642, 0933497] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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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