Comments on: Losing money really hurts http://www.uglychart.com/2007/05/16/losing-money-really-hurts/ Beauty is in the eye of the shareholder Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:32:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: uglychart.com » Blog Archive » Giving away money really feels good http://www.uglychart.com/2007/05/16/losing-money-really-hurts/#comment-20077 uglychart.com » Blog Archive » Giving away money really feels good Wed, 30 May 2007 19:46:36 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/2007/05/16/losing-money-really-hurts/#comment-20077 [...] I posted a study a couple of weeks ago about how it intrinsically hurts to lose money. Ironically, neuroscientists at the National Institutes of Health say it may intrinsically feel good to give money away: The results were showing that when the volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable. [...] [...] I posted a study a couple of weeks ago about how it intrinsically hurts to lose money. Ironically, neuroscientists at the National Institutes of Health say it may intrinsically feel good to give money away: The results were showing that when the volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable. [...]

]]> By: Eyal http://www.uglychart.com/2007/05/16/losing-money-really-hurts/#comment-16892 Eyal Thu, 17 May 2007 15:55:43 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/2007/05/16/losing-money-really-hurts/#comment-16892 Interesting article. Agree with your comment about the mental torture.. I wonder what does the 'making money' feeling equate to in terms of physical feelings/senses. Thanks for the link. Interesting article. Agree with your comment about the mental torture.. I wonder what does the ‘making money’ feeling equate to in terms of physical feelings/senses.

Thanks for the link.

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