Ideas change everything

Does money make you mean?

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Paul Piff |

TEDxMarin

• October 2013

It's amazing what a rigged game of Monopoly can reveal. In this entertaining but sobering talk, social psychologist Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy. (Hint: badly.) But while the problem of inequality is a complex and daunting challenge, there's good news too.

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It's amazing what a rigged game of Monopoly can reveal. In this entertaining but sobering talk, social psychologist Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy. (Hint: badly.) But while the problem of inequality is a complex and daunting challenge, there's good news too.

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Social psychologist

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Paul Piff studies how social hierarchy, inequality and emotion shape relations between individuals and groups.

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Paul Piff and public health expert Richard Wilkinson discuss the unseen health problems of economic disparity.

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