Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Poverty and the Lump of Willpower

Jamie Holmes has a very interesting piece in TNR about psychological and economic research into the interplay of poverty and self-control. Basically there’s a fair amount of research indicating that that mental self-control is a kind of finite resource. Resisting temptation is mentally exhausting. And it even appears that making any kind of tough decisions [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/06/07/238688/poverty-and-the-lump-of-willpower/

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