Assertion: scarcity | /r/CapableOf | capture the mind
Facets:
value: both
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Scarcity has captured the mind set of people trapped into it, says Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
text: The New Science of Having Less and How it Defines Our Lives, that scarcity “captures” the mind.
text: Another important consideration, regardless of the type of resource that is scarce, is that Mullainathan and Shafir also found that “scarcity captures the mind both when thinking fast and when thinking slow,” intentionally making the connection to another famous book, and its author behavioral finance researcher Daniel Kahneman.
text: Which in turn can lead to a “scarcity trap” – another term coined by Mullainathan and Shafir – where scarcity not only captures the mind, but also becomes cyclical unto itself, where one “bad” decision (as a result of tunneling and the bandwidth tax) made under scarcity leads to another and another.
text: It is, to begin with, their provable belief that "scarcity captures the mind", and it doesn't matter whether the absent resource is time or food or money.