Money dysmorphia: why people think they're poorer than they are

A CEO has taken his former employer to court, claiming he could no longer afford to work on a salary as low as £250,000, prompting fresh discussion of "money dysmorphia".

A "sibling" of the term "body dysmorphia", where people look in the mirror and don't see "what's really there", money dysmorphia is a "mind-bending split-screen view of reality", said The New York Times.

Blind spots

Researchers have found that people are much more likely to underestimate their earnings than...