"Time Money and Morality"

Gino, Francesca, and Mogilner, Cassie. "Time, Money, and Morality." Psychological Science 25.2 (2014): n. pag. Web. 28 October 2014.

This article explores the idea of time and money and how those two things affect someone's morality. The authors of this article, Francesca Gino and Cassie Mogilner, believe that people who are focused on money tend to be more self-interested than people who aren't as obsessed with being rich. Gino and Mogilner conducted a study and 125 Americans stated that they think more about money than time. This is also accurately depicted in on Google Trends. "Over the past 5 years, 'save money' received 73% more searches than 'save time'". The authors put these facts and statistics in the article to prove to the reader that it is a relevant topic during this time. They wrote this partly to inform about how Americans live their life but also to try and encourage people that thinking less about money and more about time will allow people to find out who they really are. Three Experiments were also explained in detailed that really helped show how detrimental thinking about money all the time can be. In Experiment 3, half of the participants had to choose lyrics from a song that had to do with money and the other half had to choose lyrics from a song that had to do with time. After submitting their lyrics, they all had to complete as many matrices as they could from a set of 20 in just 5 minutes. They then were instructed to throw away their answer sheets before reporting their scores. Unbeknownst to them, the experimenters kept track of their answers secretly. They then were told to report their scores. As predicted, the participants who had chosen lyrics about money lied about their results more than the people who picked lyrics about time. I think putting these experiments into the article helps the reader understand and believe what the author is trying to portray. After reading this article, I do not question whether time and money have anything to do with morality. I believe that Americans should stop thinking and obsessing over money and spend more effort trying to spend their time in more beneficial ways.