Recent research has studied how resource scarcity draws attention and creates cognitive load. As a result, scarcity improves some dimensions of cognitive function, while worsening others. Still, there remains a fundamental question: how does scarcity influence the content of cognition? In this article, we find that poor individuals (i.e., those facing monetary scarcity) see many everyday experiences through a different lens. Specifically, thoughts about cost and money are triggered by mundane circumstances, they are difficult to suppress, they change mental associations, and they interfere with other experiences. We suggest that the poor see an economic dimension to many everyday experiences that to others may not appear economic at all.

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穷人心理生活中的金钱

最近的研究已经研究了资源稀缺如何引起人们的注意并创造认知负荷。结果，稀缺性改善了认知功能的某些方面，而另一些方面则恶化了。尽管如此，仍然存在一个基本问题：稀缺性如何影响认知的内容？在本文中，我们发现穷人（即那些面临金钱短缺的人）通过不同的视角看到许多日常经历。具体来说，关于成本和金钱的想法是由平凡的环境触发的，它们很难被抑制，它们改变了心理联想，并且干扰了其他经验。我们建议穷人在许多日常经历中看到一个经济方面，而对其他人来说可能根本就没有经济意义。