Financial stress narrows your mind's aperture - you see less... - Sendhil Mullainathan

"Financial stress narrows your mind's aperture - you see less, despite looking harder."

Sendhil Mullainathan Creativity

Economist Researcher Indian-American Born 1974 (age 52)

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