Scarcity is the condition of having insufficient resources to cope with demands. This
condition presents significant challenges to the human cognitive system. For example …

Resource scarcity is a powerful construct in social sciences. However, explanations about
how resources influence overall wellbeing are difficult to generalize since much of the …

Scarcity poses challenging demands on the mind that can make escaping scarcity difficult.
Using eyetracking and behavioral evidence, we find that scarcity induces an attentional …

Poverty is associated with a wide range of counterproductive economic behaviors. Scarcity
theory proposes that poverty itself induces a scarcity mindset, which subsequently forces the …

Resource scarcity poses challenging demands on the cognitive system. Budgeting with
limited resources induces an attentional focus on the problem at hand, but it also comes with …

We tested the relationships between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk
behaviors. We manipulated the lack of economic resources using a priming task in Studies 1 …

Experiments in this research provide evidence that perceived scarcity increases risk-taking
propensity and risk-taking behavior in the real world. One laboratory experiment and two …

Highlights•The context of poverty produces persistent and cognitively taxing hardship.•In
poverty, thoughts about money are spontaneous, intrusive, and hard to suppress.•Instead of …

Individuals around the globe experience different forms of material resource scarcity in terms
of aspects such as hunger, thirst, or financial strains. As experiences of material scarcity …

Recent research has studied how resource scarcity draws attention and creates cognitive
load. As a result, scarcity improves some dimensions of cognitive function, while worsening …