“The Psychological Consequences of Money”

Via Hullabaloo (who got it from Indystar.com abstracted from Science):

A team of psychologists has discovered why money can’t buy happiness.

Pictures of dollar bills, fantasies of wealth and even wads of Monopoly money arouse feelings of self-sufficiency that result in selfish and often anti-social behavior, according to a study published in the journal Science.
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A series of nine experiments confirmed their hypothesis. For example, students who played Monopoly and then were asked to envision a future with great wealth picked up fewer dropped pencils for a fellow student than those asked to contemplate a hand-to-mouth existence.

This is interesting in that you don’t have to actually have money to become anti-social. Explains a lot about why the poor and lower middle-class vote Republican!