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SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages 288-291Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12292
Keywords
Poverty; cognitive functions; procedural learning; information-integration
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2015CB351800]
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Recent research has shown that poverty directly impeded cognitive functions because the poor could be easily distracted by monetary concerns. We argue that this effect may be limited to functions relying on working memory. For functions that rely on proceduralized processes however, monetary concerns elicited by reminding of financial demands would be conducive rather than harmful. Our results supported this hypothesis by showing that participants with lower income reached the learning criterion of the information-integration categorization task faster than their more affluent counterparts after reminding of financial demands.
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