Recently there has been a marked increase in psychologists' attention to all forms of behavior that are, in one way or another, connected with money; this is apparently linked to their focus on social processes (for example, buying and selling is directly connected with communication) and to the dependence of the use of money on the personality characteristics of the individual. The work briefly presented below attracted the attention of the organizing committee of the International Congress of Applied Psychology and was included on the agenda of the plenary session, but was not delivered for reasons unrelated to its content.