[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23623157[/URL]
[QUOTE][B]A new study sheds light on how money affects human behaviour.[/B]
Exchanging goods for currency is an age old trusted system for trade. In large groups it fosters co-operation as each party has a measurable payoff.
But within small groups a team found that introducing an incentive makes people less likely to share than they did before. In essence, even an artificial currency reduced their natural generosity.
The study is [URL="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1301888110"]published in journal PNAS.[/URL]
When money becomes involved, group dynamics have been known to change. Scientists have now found that even tokens with no monetary value completely changed the way in which people helped each other.
Gabriele Camera of Chapman University, US, who led the study, said that he wanted to investigate co-operation in large societies of strangers, where it is less likely for individuals to help others than in tight-knit communities.
The team devised an experiment where subjects in small and large groups had the option to give gifts in exchange for tokens.
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Try moving in with your friends in University, bills and internet become points of contention even among the best of friends.
Wow.
No way. Who would have guessed.
No shit, there are moochers everywhere.
So money makes people selfish, who'd have thought?
[QUOTE=Mabus;41994436]Try moving in with your friends in University, bills and internet become points of contention even among the best of friends.[/QUOTE]
My flatmate and I just take turns paying in £10 increments for pay-as-you-go bills and split monthly bills in half. Easy.
Wow it's almost like small groups of people try to control the flow of a super valuable commodity.
Me and my roommate argue about a lot of things, the sink not being clean, who has to clean the toilet, hair left in the plug, towels on the floor.
Never once have we argued over our bills for even a second, hell I even came up 200 short on a power bill one month and he covered me, no sweat until the next payday.
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