Live Science: What does your spending say about you?

The Science Museum is hosting a research event where visitors can take part in a series of experiments exploring the science behind managing money. Running until 23 February in the museum’s Who Am I? gallery, ‘What does your spending say about you?’ Is part of the Science Museum’s ongoing Live Science project, that sees scientists carry out research in the museum with the help of visitors.

Researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) are inviting visitors to the museum to play an interactive computer game that will explore how our spending habits change with age, how different incomes impact on saving, and how other people’s spending behaviour influences our own.  

Dr. Heather Kappes, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the LSE explores the aims of the project: “We want to know, in a large and varied group of people of different ages, how choices about spending money are affected by things that are important in the real world, like how much you start off with, how regularly you get income, and how other people around you are spending their own money.” 

Live Science: What does your spending say about you? forms part of the Who am I? gallery. It will run 15 January - 23 February, every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Drop in sessions will run throughout the day, from 11.00 – 16.30.