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  • Yet wouldn't research such as Vohs et al. have conducted on money be valuable to law and policy--e.g., informing consumer protection laws and even the trend in environmental law toward monetizing the environment?

    The Brain, Money, and Law & Economics 2006

  • Yet wouldn't research such as Vohs et al. have conducted on money be valuable to law and policy--e.g., informing consumer protection laws and even the trend in environmental law toward monetizing the environment?

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • Kathleen Vohs has conducted a battery of experiments into money all of which demonstrate the same finding: money undermines our sense of social connection.

    Margaret Heffernan: The Wilful Blindness of Rupert Murdoch Margaret Heffernan 2011

  • Kathleen Vohs, another author of the study and a marketing professor at the University of Minnesota, says this research helps explain why "people who approach tasks with a persistent way of operating … may actually be really smart, because they are conserving their mental energy to do the tough stuff."

    Shifting focus a lot at work could wreck your diet 2011

  • Kathleen Vohs has conducted a battery of experiments into money all of which demonstrate the same finding: money undermines our sense of social connection.

    Margaret Heffernan: The Wilful Blindness of Rupert Murdoch Margaret Heffernan 2011

  • For the rest of us, Vohs recommends being more mindful of priorities:"When you want to engage in good self-control, the best thing that you can do for yourself is set up your day so you exert your self-control resources toward that specific task you want to succeed at."

    People can exercise only so much self-control 2011

  • Kathleen Vohs, another author of the study and a marketing professor at the University of Minnesota, says this research helps explain why "people who approach tasks with a persistent way of operating … may actually be really smart, because they are conserving their mental energy to do the tough stuff."

    Shifting focus a lot at work could wreck your diet 2011

  • That can help predict when people are likely to fail at their diets, spend too much money or misbehave with family or in relationships, Vohs says.

    People can exercise only so much self-control 2011

  • He says Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs "wrote the key work on the subject" in 2004.

    More gender equality leads to more sex, global study shows 2011

  • Results suggest that "people have a diminishable supply of energy that the body and mind use to engage in self-control," says study author Kathleen Vohs, a consumer psychology professor at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

    People can exercise only so much self-control 2011

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