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Lilly Evans

There is clearly a growing interest here. Following up on the Science Mag article, I have come across the paper by Stephen E. G. Lea and Paul Webley "Money as tool, money as drug: The biological psychology of a strong incentive" which brings in the view that the type of behaviour Jeff refers to is most likely explained by Drug Theory of money.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Lea/Referees/Lea.3.pdf

Then again, we should not be surprised - the view that one can medicate for everything is these days widely spread!

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