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Does poverty promote a different and harmful way of thinking? The links between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors

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dc.contributor.authorCaballero, Amparo
dc.contributor.authorAguilar, Pilar
dc.contributor.authorMuñoz, Dolores
dc.contributor.authorCarrera, Pilar
dc.contributor.authorFernández Sedano, Iciar
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T11:57:30Z
dc.date.available2024-05-20T11:57:30Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-15
dc.description.abstractWe 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 and 2, and participants reported their real income and completed the BIF scale to measure their construal level in Study 3. Studies 1–3 supported the link between perceived economic scarcity and the concrete construal level. Study 4 demonstrated the mediating role played by the concrete construal level in the influence of economic scarcity on risk behaviors using two opposite priming procedures (scarcity plus abstraction). Study 5, in a real context of economic vulnerability, supported the link between concrete mindset and risk behavioral intentions, while abstraction was associated with fewer risk intentions. Concrete thinking implies focusing on the immediate situation, which might facilitate adaptation to the demanding conditions that characterize scarcity contexts but leaves people without a broad perspective of the future to make safe decisions in situations that involve self-control, such as health-risk behaviors. Because an abstract construal level can be induced, these findings open up challenging ways to improve the conditions in which people in scarcity contexts make some behavioral decisions while we continue working to reduce situations of economic scarcity.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02382-3
dc.identifier.issn1046-1310; eISSN 1936-4733
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/12756
dc.journal.titleCurrent Psychology
dc.journal.volume42
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Psicología
dc.relation.departmentPsicología Social y de las Organizaciones
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject.keywordsEconomic scarcity
dc.subject.keywordsConstrual level
dc.subject.keywordsConcrete mindset
dc.subject.keywordsRisk behaviors
dc.titleDoes poverty promote a different and harmful way of thinking? The links between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviorses
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