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And when it comes time to invest, or
to do anything that involves a sage balance
of risk and reward, keep yourself
in check. One good way to do this is to
make sure that you’re not surrounding
yourself with images of reward at the
crucial moment of decision. Kuhnen
and Brian Knutson have found that men
who are shown erotic pictures just before
they gamble take more risks than
those shown neutral images like desks
and chairs. This is because anticipating
rewards—any rewards, whether or not
related to the subject at hand—excites
our dopamine-driven reward networks
and makes us act more rashly. (This
may be the single best argument yet for
banning pornography from
workplaces.)
And if you’re an introvert who’s relatively
immune to the excesses of reward
sensitivity? At first blush, the
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