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【Earth&Sky】大脑的<痛>

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Gregory Berns: Economics is all about decision making.

You're listening to neuroscientist Gregory Berns. He’s investigating how the human brain makes painful financial decisions. In his lab, he [---1---] financial risk by asking subjects to make decisions about receiving an electric shock.

Gregory Berns: Many types of pain — whether it’s [---2---] — utilize the same parts of the brain.

Berns observed people in an MRI while they weighed their options about physical pain.

Gregory Berns: And the choice was whether to take a bigger shock sooner, or a smaller shock later. Now I can tell you that [---3---] , it’s like, why would anyone want to take a bigger shock?

But about half of his subjects took the bigger shock. And in the real world, Berns said, investors sometimes do the same thing — by prematurely selling a stock that’s lost value, instead of waiting for the stock price to rise again.

Gregory Berns: It turns out that there are two types of people. [---4---] . It's strange enough.

Berns suggested that just knowing the ways people are wired to [---5---] pain — or the threat of it — could help governments create sounder economic policies.

I'm Deborah Byrd for E&S, a clear voice for science.
We are at E&S.org