As We Become Richer, Do We Become Stingier?

From NPR's "All Things Considered" | September 3, 2013

The poor tend to value social connections, psychologists say. But as people become wealthy, they need one another less and — according to some scientists — make fewer connections. GGSC's Dacher Keltner on the generosity divide between rich and poor.

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