Commentary: "Poverty impedes cognitive function" and "The poor's poor mental power"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Lund University Lund, Sweden.
² Department of Psychology, Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden.
³ BEE - Behavioral Engineering Research Group, Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium.

Junhua Dang et al. Front Psychol. 2015.

. 2015 Jul 22:6:1037.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01037. eCollection 2015.

¹ Department of Psychology, Lund University Lund, Sweden.
² Department of Psychology, Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden.
³ BEE - Behavioral Engineering Research Group, Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium.

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Keywords: distraction; poverty; proceduralized processes; reward sensitivity; selectivity of attention; self-regulation.

Comment on

Poverty impedes cognitive function.
Mani A, Mullainathan S, Shafir E, Zhao J. Mani A, et al. Science. 2013 Aug 30;341(6149):976-80. doi: 10.1126/science.1238041. Science. 2013. PMID: 23990553
Psychology. The poor's poor mental power.
Vohs KD. Vohs KD. Science. 2013 Aug 30;341(6149):969-70. doi: 10.1126/science.1244172. Science. 2013. PMID: 23990551 No abstract available.

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