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Kids Who Handle Money Work Harder, but There’s a Downside
Fortune: Money can make youngsters as little as three years old work harder, but there’s evidence it can also make them less charitable. Money makes the world go round. Even when you’re three years old.
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Study: Just playing with money makes children more likely to work hard—and give less
Quartz: Money often does strange things to us—kids included. Many parents have observed that their children may be changed by an allowance, for example, or even just an intense game of Monopoly. And now science
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Black Friday: The Jury is Still Deliberating
Scientific American: Halloween decorations have been taken down, costumes have been stowed away and all of the candy corn has been eaten. Americans are now preparing for their next major holiday—Black Friday. Black Friday is
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Can Cash Counter Workplace Ostracism?
New evidence suggests that thinking about money may help buffer against the emotional toll of ostracism and social exclusion at work.
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Why Christmas Creep Turns Holiday Shoppers into Grinches
TIME: We’re a nation divided, with each side judging the other harshly, unable to empathize with the counterpart’s point of view. And with each sure that their side’s own values, methods and motives are more
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The Psychological Case Against Tipping
New York Magazine: Welcome to the weirdness of tipping in America. It carries with it such a strong psychological pull that many consumers are unwilling to abandon it, and in light of recent estimates that 58 percent of a
