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adulithien asked in Social SciencePsychology · 1 decade ago

Have you seen a study about money feeling more valuable when you earn it through physical labor?

I know it sounds stupid, but I recently saw an article on this. Researchers found that, dollar-for-dollar, money was seen as more valuable to a person who actually had to engage in physical labor to earn it as opposed to someone who did light office or phone work to earn it.

I saw this article on a fairly major news site within the last month, but I am having no luck finding it. Obviously, this is a pretty complex thing to enter into a Google search, and the key terms are pretty generic.

Does anyone know where I can find a link to the study itself or an article about it? Please help!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Interesting, because people who do physcial labour feel that the money has been "truly earned"...

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