“As the national economic crisis has deepened and social services have become casualties of budget cuts, libraries have come to fill a void for more people, particularly job-seekers and those who have fallen on hard times. Libraries across the country are seeing double-digit increases in patronage, often from 10 percent to 30 percent, over previous [...]
Archive for April 3rd, 2009
Trouble Among the Stacks: Downturn Puts New Stresses on Libraries
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Money Matters: Psychologists on Why Money Messes With Our Minds
Posted in Economy, Human Behavior, Science & Technology on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Dough, wonga, greenbacks, cash. Just words, you might say, but they carry an eerie psychological force. Chew them over for a few moments, and you will become a different person. Simply thinking about words associated with money seems to makes us more self-reliant and less inclined to help others. And it gets weirder: just handling [...]
