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The Mental Strain of Making Do With Less
The New York Times: Diets don’t just reduce weight, they can reduce mental capacity. In other words, dieting can make you dumber. Understanding why this is the case can illuminate a range of experiences, including
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How Being Poor Makes You Poor
Pacific Standard: Why are the rich rich and the poor poor? It’s a question that gets asked a lot, and a question we should continue asking. Do the wealthy simply work harder and for longer
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Soup Kitchen Psychology: Nourishment For Impoverished Thinking
The Huffington Post: Poverty is emotionally crushing, and stigma only adds to that burden. The poor are often disparaged as lazy and incompetent — unable or unwilling to improve their own lot. Why don’t they
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Days late, dollars short
The Economist: There is a distinctive psychology of scarcity, argues Mr Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, a psychologist at Princeton University. People’s minds work differently when they feel they lack something. And it does not greatly
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Nourishment for impoverished thinking
Poverty is emotionally crushing, and stigma only adds to that burden. The poor are often disparaged as lazy and incompetent—unable or unwilling to improve their own lot. Why don’t they go to school, eat more
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Poverty strains cognitive abilities, opening door for bad decision-making, new study finds
The Washington Post: Poverty consumes so much mental energy that people struggling to make ends meet often have little brainpower left for anything else, leaving them more susceptible to bad decisions that can perpetuate their
