The Psychological Science of Money

Money carries value and drives people’s behavior accordingly. But what are the biological and psychological processes that are involved when people strive for, receive, and spend money? While money-related processes have recently received a lot of attention in psychology and neuroscience, this has occurred in a rather fragmented manner. Consisting of contributions by leading experts, this volume presents a scientific approach of how money affects brain, mind, and behavior. The editors aim to bring classic knowledge and recent insights together, providing a formulation of the current state of the psychological science of money.

Erik Bijleveld is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University. His research focuses on investigating nonconscious, motivational processes. More specifically, his present line of research aims to show that nonconscious and conscious varieties of motivation operate in similar ways, at least when it comes to the allocation of mental resources. Henk Aarts completed graduate training as an experimental social psychologist at Nijmegen University, where he worked on habit and decision making. Since 2004 he has been a Full Professor in Social Psychology at Utrecht University. His work deals with several topics related to the role of goals in automatic processes of social cognition and behavior.