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Money and Women
Apr. 15th, 2008 12:01 pmWith the usual caveat that science reporting is not always top notch...
There's a story in today's paper about a study in London that found male financial traders with higher testosterone levels achieve better short-term financial success through more risk-taking, but longer-term high levels over several days probably mean long-term financial instability because of the same.
But, more interesting to me was the reporters' linking this finding to studies demonstrating that young heterosexual men shown erotic pictures of women were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary or neutral. They used brain scans to demonstrate that this was because "money and women trigger the same brain area" - the "reward area." Hmmm...
Also interesting: They didn't test whether the link exists in women because it is more difficult to find an erotic image that would appeal to many different heterosexual women compared to heterosexual men. Hmmm...
There's a story in today's paper about a study in London that found male financial traders with higher testosterone levels achieve better short-term financial success through more risk-taking, but longer-term high levels over several days probably mean long-term financial instability because of the same.
But, more interesting to me was the reporters' linking this finding to studies demonstrating that young heterosexual men shown erotic pictures of women were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary or neutral. They used brain scans to demonstrate that this was because "money and women trigger the same brain area" - the "reward area." Hmmm...
Also interesting: They didn't test whether the link exists in women because it is more difficult to find an erotic image that would appeal to many different heterosexual women compared to heterosexual men. Hmmm...
