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Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4
7AL, UK. 2Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cam-
bridge, MA 02138, USA. 3Department of Psychology and
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. 4Department
of Psychology and Institute for Resources, Environment and Fig. 1. Accuracy on the Raven’s matrices and the cognitive control tasks in the hard and easy
Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British conditions, for the poor and the rich participants in experiment 1. (Left) Performance on the
Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. Raven’s Matrices task. (Right) Performance on the cognitive control task. Error bars reflect T1 SEM. Top
*Corresponding author. E-mail: mullain@fas.harvard.edu horizontal bars show two-way interaction (poor versus rich × hard versus easy). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01,
(S.M.); shafir@princeton.edu (E.S.) ***P < 0.001
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