http://mindhacks.com/2006/04/20/lingerie-sharpens-the-financial-mind/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:26:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2006/04/20/lingerie-sharpens-the-financial-mind/#comment-8000 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:06:25 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2006/04/20/lingerie-sharpens-the-financial-mind/#comment-8000 This sounds suspiciously like the assertion by Robert Anton Wilson (and common sense) that happy people tend to act less selfishly than unhappy people. And looking at hot girls in bikinis tends to make most men happy.
In this artificial case, the greatest rewards are to be found from acting unselfishly, so the happy men did better in this case. In the “real world”, as a recent survey among daytraders showed, borderline psychopathic behaveour seems to make for the most successful behaveour.

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