One of the players, a brown-haired guy in a striped T-shirt, has been made “rich.” He got $2,000 from the Monopoly bank at the start of the game and receives $200 each time he passes Go. Here, the only thing that matters is money. A team of psychologists has rigged it so that skill, brains, savvy, and luck-those ingredients that ineffably combine to create success in games as in life-have been made immaterial. In a windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two undergrads are playing a Monopoly game that one of them has no chance of winning.
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