How economic scarcity shapes cognition (2026)
[Published in Nature Reviews Psychology 2026]
Cognition
The Perceived Economic Scarcity Scale: A valid tool with greater predictive utility than income. (2024)
[Published in the British Journal of Social Psychology 2024] This paper presents the Perceived Economic Scarcity Scale (PESS), a novel instrument measuring the subjective evaluation and experience of economic scarcity (the feeling of having insufficient financial resources to meet one’s needs).