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Most of us like to think we'd stay grounded if we were suddenly to become very wealthy,

that we'd still be our old selves, just with more money.

But psychologists' research suggests that this might not be true.

In recent years, studies have found that gaining money and status can shift how people see themselves

and how they behave toward others. While it was the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote

that the rich are different from you and me, it is psychologists who have shown this to be true. Today we're going to talk to a psychologist who studies wealth and the ways in which the rich are indeed different.

How do money, status, and power shape people's behavior and beliefs?

What are the psychological mechanisms at play?

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