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February 19, 2015 A Visit to the ATM Changes You a Little When a woman in a French town "accidentally" dropped a bus pass in the street as part of an experiment, 96% of people informed her about it. But that proportion dropped to 60% for those who had handled money at an ATM machine a few seconds earlier, say Nicolas Guéguen and Céline Jacob of the Université de Bretagne-Sud in France. The finding that people were less likely to help others after handling cash supports a theory that money activates a feeling of self-sufficiency, which decreases the motivation for social contacts. SOURCE: Behavioral consequences of money: When the automated teller machine reduces helping behavior

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