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Exploring the Financial Costs of Sadness

Your emotions can certainly impact your decisions, but you might be surprised by the extent to which your emotions affect your pocketbook. New research explores how impatience brought on by sadness can in turn produce substantial financial loss. ... More>


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A Simple Way to Get Conservatives to Support Higher Taxes on the Rich


Want to Influence Support for Redistributive Tax Policies? Choose Your Words Carefully

Income inequality has become a major topic of discussion over the last year and yet consensus on what (if anything) should be done about it seems elusive. New research published in Psychological Science suggests that a simple manipulation of language might be able to influence support for policies aimed at addressing income inequality. ... More>


The psychology of poverty