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Psychologists Mara Mather, Eldar Shafir and Marcia Johnson found that once people choose between two similar options, their memory for each option's original pros and cons shifts t…
— Mara Mather, Eldar Shafir, Marcia K. Johnson, Misremembrance of Options Past: Source Monitoring and Choice
Studying the same Indian sugarcane farmers before and after harvest, researchers found their cognitive test scores dropped when money was tight and recovered once it wasn't — a swi…
— Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much