Whether you have it or not, it’s hard to get away from the influence of money. Your education, your profession, your partner, and your health are all directly influenced by it. So it’s probably not that surprising that psychologists have found that money dramatically changes how we see the world. For decades, there’s been a small trickle of research in this field. But since the recession, it has grown to a steady stream, says Michael Krausa professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management. Having money gives you more autonomy and control over paul piff money makes you mean own life. Wealthy people tend to yku more narcissistic and think they’re more able and skilled than the average person. So maybe it follows that wealth can also make you selfish and unethical : Wealthy people may justify pursuing wealth as a good thing, and craft narratives of «pulling themselves up by ,akes bootstraps,» even if they were born into privilege a narrative peddled by a famous and newly-political family we might know. If someone isn’t wealthy, a wealthy person’s logic goes, it’s because they lack the talent or the drive to reach the same level.
