A scarcity mindset alters neural processing underlying consumer decision making
- aDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
- bBehavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
- cDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003;
- dCenter for Neuroeconomics, Maastricht University, 6211 LM, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
- eDivision of Psychology, School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, London SE1 0AA, United Kingdom;
- fInstitute of Psychology, Leiden University, 2333 AK, Leiden, The Netherlands;
- gPoverty Interventions, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, 1091 GH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Edited by Read Montague, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Michael S. Gazzaniga April 26, 2019 (received for review November 16, 2018)

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- Inge Huijsmansa,b,1,
- Ili Mac,
- Leticia Michelid,
- Claudia Civaie,
- Mirre Stallenf,g, and
- Alan G. Sanfeya,b
- aDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
- bBehavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
- cDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003;
- dCenter for Neuroeconomics, Maastricht University, 6211 LM, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
- eDivision of Psychology, School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, London SE1 0AA, United Kingdom;
- fInstitute of Psychology, Leiden University, 2333 AK, Leiden, The Netherlands;
- gPoverty Interventions, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, 1091 GH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edited by Read Montague, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Michael S. Gazzaniga April 26, 2019 (received for review November 16, 2018)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: i.huijsmans{at}donders.ru.nl.
Author contributions: I.H., L.M., M.S., and A.G.S. designed research; I.H. and L.M. performed research; I.H., I.M., C.C., and A.G.S. analyzed data; and I.H., I.M., L.M., C.C., M.S., and A.G.S. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. R.M. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1818572116/-/DCSupplemental.
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