Psychologists have suspected for a while now that money changes the way people act toward others.
Studies have found, for example, that wealthier people are less compassionate and more likely tocheck out during social interactions.
Recently, a pair of researchers at Emory University and the University of Minnesota set out to extend these findings by measuring the relationship between how much money you have and how social you are.
They found that the wealthier you are, the less time you spend socializing.
For the study, cited on Vox, the researchers looked at two huge sets of data: Nearly 30,000 respondents from the General Social Survey, which has been administered to American adults once or twice a year since 1972, and nearly 90,000 people who responded to the American Time Use Survey between 2002 and 2011.
Surveys asked people to indicate their household income as well as how often they spent time with relatives, neighbors, and friends.