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Mere Thought of Money Makes People Selfish

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posted on Mar, 1 2010 @ 11:11 PM
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www.livescience.com...


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Just the mere thought of money can turn a person selfish, so that he helps others less often and prefers to play alone, a new study shows.

In a series of nine experiments, researchers found that money enhanced people's motivation to achieve their own goals and degraded their behavior toward others. The concept of money, they suggest, makes a person feel more self-sufficient and thus more apt to stand alone.

The scientists said the study had nothing to do with making a person feel wealthy. When real or fake money, or even a photo of cash, was placed in sight of participants, they became selfish.

The results could explain why the topic of money can be so detrimental to a couple's lasting bond.

"In our experiments, the people who are reminded of money really worked hard toward their own goals. But that might not be conducive to a good interpersonal relationship," said study leader Kathleen Vohs of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.


Money is the root of all problems. It caused us so many issues and changes people character.

I know this is from 2006 but it is a good study and thought I would bring some science to the thought of money.




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A take-home message, Vohs explained, is that "cooperation really goes down the drain when money is an issue."

For business managers, this could translate into keeping the idea of money in the background.

"In a lot of businesses, we train our MBA's to work in teams," Vohs said. "If the team has a sales goal, then to the extent that money is really a big topic to that team, you're likely to see that cooperation is going to be reduced."

And for couples who want to work as a team, she said, taking money out of the equation can only help.


I do not understand the usefulness of money...If we had more people doing things they like it would only make the world a better place. People do not need money to "drive" them into doing something, in fact it does the opposite.

Who wants to go to a job they hate? No one. Who goes to a job they hate just to get paid? Almost everyone. To go to work every morning with dread cannot increase our life. It can be detrimental and can hurt us in many ways.

If everyone had time to find their passion in lives it would make the world a better place. If we only had music made by people who loved music, rather than just doing it for the money, it would be leaps and bounds better than the crap that is on the radio now.

Let people do what they love, if people are surrounded by love they become part of that and well, people as a whole would be happier.

And for all those people who say "well if we got rid of money then all those people who do nothing would get everything for free" well, guess what, we pay for them now. And not only that we pay for rich people to get richer.

Money corrupts us and makes us worse, I do not understand how we still have a such a useless thing as money in today's world.

Any thoughts?

Pred..



posted on Mar, 1 2010 @ 11:33 PM
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Money is a means of control...

Everything we do costs money and that is no accident.

We are trapped in a life driven by financial gain.

Money does make the world go round... or was it fat bottomed girls



 
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