Good news for brain-damaged investors? ;)

[Bylo Selhi]

Lessons From The Brain-Damaged Investor

People with certain kinds of brain damage may make better investment decisions. That is the conclusion of a new study offering some compelling evidence that mixing emotion with investing can lead to bad outcomes. By linking brain science to investment behavior, researchers concluded that people with an impaired ability to experience emotions could actually make better financial decisions than other people under certain circumstances. The research is part of a fast-growing interdisciplinary field called "neuroeconomics" that explores the role biology plays in economic decision making, by combining insights from cognitive neuroscience, psychology and economics...

[worthy]

"When Raymond Babbit babbles, people listen."

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[yielder]

Legg Mason's take on the subject.