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    "pk": 27403,
    "title": "Scarcity impairs online detection and prospective memory",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Operating under limited resources poses significant demands\non the cognitive system. Here we demonstrate that people\nunder time scarcity failed to detect time-saving cues as they\noccur in the environment (Experiment 1a). These time-saving\ncues, if noticed, would have saved time for the time-poor\nparticipants. Moreover, the visuospatial proximity of the\ntime-saving cues to the focal task determined successful\ndetection, suggesting that scarcity altered the spatial scope of\nattention (Experiment 1b & 1c). People under time scarcity\nwere also more likely to forget previous instructions to\nexecute future actions (Experiment 2). These instructions, if\nremembered and followed, would have saved time for the\ntime-poor participants. Failures of online detection and\nprospective memory are problematic because they cause\nneglect and forgetting of beneficial information, perpetuating\nthe condition of scarcity. The current study provides a new\ncognitive account for the counterproductive behaviors in the\npoor, and relevant implications for interventions.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "scarcity"
        },
        {
            "word": "attention"
        },
        {
            "word": "perception"
        },
        {
            "word": "memory"
        },
        {
            "word": "Recall"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2062z2wk",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Brandon",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Tomm",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of British Columbia",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jiaying",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zhao",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of British Columbia",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}