The brain of market investors ?

I believe part of what we are here for is to learn about ourselves. If we observe we have to chance to act however if we are controlled by the emotional body we can only “RE-ACT”. May be, we grow in age but the emotional body is often deprivated of development it stays like a four years old boy and RE-ACT.

an article on the brain of market investors.

Found via Forbes

….Eight years ago a handful of brain scientists began using MRI scanners, psychological tests and an emerging understanding of brain anatomy to try and overturn traditional economic theories that assume people always act rationally when it comes to financial decisions. To understand the market, these researchers said, you needed to get inside peoples’ heads. They called their new field neuroeconomics.

….”Fear plus herding equals panic,” says Gregory Berns, a neuroeconomist at Emory University. “You bet it’s biologically based.

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