03/3/2010
Caltech Scientists Find First Physiological Evidence of Brain's Response to Inequality
followingshade:selva:azspot: Specifically, the team found that the reward centers in the human brain respond more strongly when a poor person receives a financial reward than when a rich person does. The surprising thing? This activity pattern holds true even if the brain being looked at is in the rich person’s head, rather than the poor person’s.
“What was surprising was the other side of the coin. “In the experiment, people who started out rich had a stronger reaction to other people getting money than to themselves getting money,” Camerer explains. “In other words, their brains liked it when others got money more than they liked it when they themselves got money.”
You can also say it plain: NOW it is scientifically proven that being rich makes you unhappy in the end :D I do not say that we do not need money, but I always knew there must be some explanation to rich people always running around with a sourish face, while really poor fellas are smiling and singing so often :D
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