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送交者: Latino2 于 2007-04-06, 11:41:27:

人的大脑对小额金钱的敏感度，依财富多少而不同。

剑桥的心理学家测验了十四个人面对小额金钱诱惑时的反应。受试者的银行存款从零到六千美金，年收入从零到六万美金。

研究结果发现，低收入的受试者对小额金钱的敏感度是高收入者的三倍。心理学家再用fMRI重复测试，结果一样， ”穷人“对小额金钱的的反应远比”富人“高。

Source of reference: ”Rich Brain, Poor Brain“ By Mary Beckman, ScienceNOW Daily News, 4 April 2007.

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/404/3

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那俺就是标准的穷人:) - shine (60 bytes) 2007-04-06, 18:15:01 (134507)
这不就是 marginal decreasing uitility 吗？ - 插一腿 (91 bytes) 2007-04-06, 13:45:41 (134488)
- I didn't read the news, but I think it says more than that - xj (418 bytes) 2007-04-06, 13:54:05 (134489)
nonsense - queue (40 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:55:20 (134471)
Isn't the result obvious? I can have this kind of 研究结果 without any research - 008 (123 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:20:53 (134457)
- Not really. There is another notion that - Latino2 (27 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:25:45 (134458)
  - That's 仇富 . I care about $100, I bet Bill Gates doens't. (无内容) - 008 (0 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:29:15 (134461)
    - One can not extend the result beyond the boundary - Latino2 (58 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:32:15 (134463)
      - see, "60k only" means you are not sensitive to 60k - 008 (68 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:41:30 (134464)
  - Plus, even common sense still needs scientific explaination (无内容) - Latino2 (0 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:28:09 (134459)
    - They "discovered" common sense, no explanation at all (无内容) - 008 (0 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:29:58 (134462)
      - It's a starting point to measure diminishing marginal utility in a laboratory - Latino2 (234 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:48:28 (134468)
        
        That's quite true. So it is important that they finally can measure something - 008 (375 bytes) 2007-04-06, 13:08:41 (134477)
experimental evidence for decreasing marginal utility? (无内容) - mangolasi (0 bytes) 2007-04-06, 11:51:03 (134450)
- 芒果去洗洗脚吧,俺们想念你 (无内容) - bubble (0 bytes) 2007-04-06, 12:10:51 (134454)

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