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Scaling Up Savings: More Targeted Policies Could Help the Hardest Hit
Too many Americans can’t afford an emergency expense. Psychological science can help.
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How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive
As Washington debates sending checks to Americans and increasing the minimum wage, a new study offers evidence for how such policies could help eliminate poverty. Obviously, giving more money to people without much money helps them with
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
“What to Do With Dirty Money?” by C. Nathan DeWall; “Human Strengths Amid the Challenges of Poverty” by David Myers
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New Research from Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring poverty and puberty, infants’ processing of unexpected events, and a re-examination of statistical-learning ability in newborn chicks.
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High Wealth Inequality Linked With Greater Support for Populist Leaders
People who live or think they live in a more economically unequal society may be more supportive of a strong, even autocratic leader, a large-scale international study shows.
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Supportive Parenting May Buffer Against the Neurological Impact of Poverty
Shot of young man helping his daughter with her homework while her mother cooks in the background