The Psychological Consequences of Money

Kathleen D. Vohs, Nicole L. Mead, Miranda R. Goode · Science · 2006 · economics · 10.1126/science.1132491 · record vohs2006-money
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concept 9 fields · sample-size 5 fields · behavior 4 fields · standard-deviation 3 fields · priming 2 fields · statistical-significance 2 fields

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priming money priming conceptual priming self-sufficiency association secondariness modulation money accessibility reminders of money shift people into a self-sufficient orientation - more independent, less helpful and less help-seeking primed participants help reminders behavior experiments concept social self-sufficient orientation requests for help helpfulness ANOVA hypothesis-testing tested the hypothesis mean average of odds-ratio odds ratio p-value sample-size standard-deviation statistical-significance t-test behavioural-experiment

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controlsrandom assignment between the high-money and restricted-money manipulations, so the two primes differ only in the idea they activate
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sensesTHE DEFINITION AND THEN THE REFUSAL OF ITS CONNOTATION, IN CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES. Self-sufficiency is `an insulated state wherein people put forth effort to attain personal goals and prefer to be separate from others` - and then: `The term as we define it does not imply a value judgment and encompasses a mixture of desirable and undesirable qualities.` That second sentence is the paper's whole argumentative move. `Self-sufficiency` in ordinary English is a compliment; stripped of its valence it can carry `worked harder` and `helped less` at once, which is exactly what the nine experiments show
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sensesONE PROCESS FOR TWO OPPOSITE-VALENCE LITERATURES, STATED AS THE PAPER'S PROPOSAL: `Some scholars have pointed to its role as an incentive ... Others, however, have deplored money for undermining interpersonal harmony. Quotation withheld` Two bodies of work that had been read as contradicting each other are re-described as one effect seen from two sides - and the only thing that makes that possible is the value-neutral definition in the previous row
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sensesTHE OBJECT IS AN IDEA AND THE PAPER SAYS SO BEFORE ANY EXPERIMENT: `In this Report, `money` refers to a distinct entity, a particular economic concept ... we use the term money to represent the idea of money, not property or possessions.` Nobody is given, shown or promised wealth. A stipulative definition placed before the method, which is rare in this corpus and is what makes the result a claim about concepts rather than about incentives - and it is precisely the move a critic must accept before the findings can even be stated
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sensesAND PRIMING IS DEFINED BY MECHANISM AND LOCATION RATHER THAN BY EFFECT: it works `through the use of mental priming techniques, which heighten the accessibility of the idea of money but at a level below participants' conscious awareness. Thus, priming acts as a nonconscious reminder of the concept of money.` Two commitments in one sentence - what the prime changes (accessibility) and where it changes it (below awareness) - and the second is the one a replication can fail on without touching the first
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direction on the measure: increases · strength of the relation: 0.7 · note: GROUNDED ON THE HYPOTHESIS, NOT THE RESULT, AND WEIGHTED 0.7 FOR IT. The results sentence - 'nine experiments SUGGEST…' - writes the construct as an adjective, which cannot attest the noun this node uses. The conditional does, and it carries 'If', which is the right amount of commitment for an edge on a contested effect: money2013 on this corpus is the 2015 reply to a failed replication of the related Caruso et al. result, and it offers four moderators for when this should hold at all. Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span is conditional ('If money brings about ...'); the sign states it as a finding.
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content_tagsReminders of money, relative to nonmoney reminders, led to fewer requests for help and less helpfulness toward others, and money-primed participants preferred to play alone, work alone and keep more physical distance from a new acquaintance.
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content_tagsParticipants reminded of money reliably performed independent but socially insensitive actions.
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