Greed - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/greed/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:04:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png Greed - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/greed/ 32 32 Defining Greed https://allpsych.com/defining-greed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defining-greed Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:18:40 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2289 A couple weeks ago, I wrote about a study on how childhood experiences potentially give rise to a later tendency to be greedy. The gist of the study was that only children from wealthier families were greedier on average as teenagers but that socioeconomic status didn’t have any obvious effect on greed for children with…

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]]> The Childhood Roots of Greed https://allpsych.com/the-childhood-roots-of-greed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-childhood-roots-of-greed Mon, 14 Oct 2019 23:23:47 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2274 Being willing to share resources with each other is one of the things that keeps our society functioning. That’s why one of the lessons that we commonly teach children is how to share. Of course, to varying degrees, we all ignore that lesson at times. There’s an opposite tendency to always want more of something…

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