6 studies on how money affects the mind
Posted by: Jessica Gross December 20, 2013 at 12:22 pm EDT http://blog.ted.com/2013/12/20/6-studies-of-money-and-the-mind/ Paul Piff shares some of his research on the science of greed at TEDxMarin. How does being rich affect the way we behave? In today’s talk, social psychologist Paul Piff provides a convincing case for the answer: not well . Paul Piff: Does money make you mean? “As a person’s levels of wealth increase, their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increases,” he says in his talk from TEDxMarin . Through surveys and studies, Piff and his colleagues have found that wealthier individuals are more likely to moralize greed and self-interest as favorable, less likely to be prosocial, and more likely to cheat and break laws if it behooves them. The swath of evidence Piff has accumulated isn’t meant to incrimin...