Thursday, April 10, 2008

Sex and Financial Risk Linked in Brain

A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles — sex. When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported.


The arousing pictures lit up the same part of the brain that lights up when financial risks are taken.

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