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Mind Over Money: Exploring the link between IQ and financial stress

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Few would argue that how we feel about money has an impact on how we feel about our lives and ourselves - but new research has revealed the effects of money stress are more extensive than we once thought.

With advisory input from Money and Pensions Service and University of California, Berkeley, this report reveals the impact financial stress has on cognition, decision-making and mental wellbeing, through a concept known as scarcity mindset.

Download the report to find out:

  • Introduction to a scarcity mindset – what it is and how it can arise

  • The demographics of scarcity, and why women are more affected

  • Whether a financial support toolkit can help to alleviate a scarcity mindset

  • What possible explanations there are there for the observed behaviour changes


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