Lecture by Christian T. Elbæk

Individuals around the globe experience different forms of resource scarcity in terms of aspects such as hunger, thirst, or financial strains. While research over the last decade have firmly established that such scarcity reduces cognitive functioning and increases temporal discounting and risk-taking behavior, the findings on the moral consequences of scarcity still remain mixed. In this talk, I will present results from two projects aimed at investigating exactly how scarcity might affect moral judgment and decision-making.