Dr Evans's and Dr Schamberg's study does not examine the nature of the stress that the children of the poor are exposed to, but it is now well established that poor adults live stressful lives, and not just for the obvious reason that poverty brings uncertainty about the future.

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"It's now easy for us to see how other people around the world live, not just how our neighbors live, " says Barry Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College.

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