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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?
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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?
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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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
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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."
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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
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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