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A project is underway to study self-control in contexts of poverty in the Global South, directed by professor of philosophy Juan Pablo Bermúdez (Universidad Externado de Colombia & Imperial College London). The project is supported by a $300,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Professor Bermúdez provides the following description of it: Research suggests that poverty reduces our ability to pursue long-term goals, but it is yet unclear how this effect occurs. Does poverty make temptations greater, and self-control failures more frequent? Or do agents respond to poverty’s harsher conditions by abandoning their longterm aspirations, choosing shorter-term goals instead? To our knowledge there is no direct test of these two possible mechanistic explanations. Using a method that allows us to take ‘psychological snapshots’ of everyday experiences, we will map out the influence of context on people’s decision-making process, in order to better understand the mechanisms of self-control in contexts of poverty. Our study will include the most diverse population yet in self-control studies: people from high and low SES backgrounds in urban Colombia.
The invasion of the capitol gives Lula the perfect justification for cleaning house, most importantly in the civil service, judiciary and military. It has also, however briefly, united the governments of Latin America against right-wing authoritarianism
*Ibizan “Phoenician punk” band are sacrificing and eating the hapless tourists on the island
As nurses from two New York hospitals fight for better treatment, the executives in charge have been boosting their own pay and slashing charity care.
In ten years from 2000, a decade of sustained investment by a New Labour government managed to repair much of the damage done to the NHS by twenty-one years of underfunding. Then, in 2010, David Cameron’s government threw that into reverse with a new decade of austerity. That’s why the performance of England’s NHS is […]
Stark contrast to treatment of Ukrainian refugees News has emerged today that the UK government has not accepted a single refugee under the Afghan Resettlement Scheme in the past twelve months. The scheme is meant to help Afghans and their familes who assisted western forces during the Afghan conflict, yet the complete absence of successful […]
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A new beginning.
The answer to when inflation will revert to its long-run average likely depends on whether we are still in the “Great Moderation” regime of less volatile inflation.
A filing against Barclays presents quite the rap sheet, and also illustrates why it takes legal bloodymindeness to take on these miscreants.
Double-crossers! Double lives! Double trouble! The Autons emerge in the first full-cast audio adventure of a dark, political Torchwood two-parter, ‘Double’, released today by Big Finish Productions. In Torchwood: Double – Part 1, Louise Jameson gives an unmissable performance as Roberta Craven – the messy, extremely intelligent, and complicated head of 1970s Torchwood! 1970s London is a […]
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Vídeos pré-invasões repetem paranoia provocada no coração de grupos pró-ditadura e hoje capaz de transformar qualquer ambiente virtual em célula terrorista.
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New data shows the number of people going without food has increased by 100% since before the pandemic, with health outcomes for the poorest households worsening
The Guardian has reported a speech by Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill, given in New York yesterday. In the speech, Pill said that
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Oopsie! Mr. Market is not cooperating with the Biden plan to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at prices better than $70 a barrel
The Republicans in the US House of Representatives took a long time to agree on a Speaker last week. But having done so, they got
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Round and round we go: Special insurrection caucus edition.
Some speaker of the house alternates.
After disrepair in the visa system and implementing urgent interim measures, 2023 will have to be a year of immigration policy action for the Albanese Government. read now...