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Stanford University researchers have found that when men are exposed to erotic images an area of the brain associated with the anticipation of reward is stimulated, causing the men to take bigger financial risks than they otherwise would.
The study, published in NeuroReport, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track changes in participants' brains as they viewed photographs of positive, negative or neutral subjects and then had to quickly make a decision to choose one of two levels of financial risk in a required gamble.
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http://www.altpenis.com/penis_news/20080307021650sys.shtml
Interesting study, but I don't think the title or first paragraph accurately summarizes the study. The title seems especially misleading. The risks, i.e., the odds of losing, were actually the same for each bet, but the men gambled more money after viewing the erotic images.
In the long-term, when the odds are even, it doesn't make any difference whether you bet a little or a lot, you stand to come out even.
If the odds were against you, even a little, then the more you bet, the more you lose, on average.
Maybe the men didn't know the odds, but the story doesn't say that.
