http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-money-is-part-of-human-nature-money.php Understand your mind with the science of psychology - Mon, 04 May 2009 10:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-money-is-part-of-human-nature-money.php/comment-page-1#comment-21598 metahacker Fri, 23 May 2008 14:24:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-money-is-part-of-human-nature-money-as-both-tool-and-drug.php#comment-21598 The cultural assumptions in this article hurt its main argument. For example, gifts of money are not only acceptable but expected in China at New Year's, complete with attendant ritual. It might be interesting to see to what extent these attitudes are culturally derived, and to what they are based on fundamental cognitive biases. The cultural assumptions in this article hurt its main argument. For example, gifts of money are not only acceptable but expected in China at New Year's, complete with attendant ritual. It might be interesting to see to what extent these attitudes are culturally derived, and to what they are based on fundamental cognitive biases.

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