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The Root Of The Economic Bust

By The Daily Dish

Mar 14 2009, 4:55 AM ET

Jonah Lehrer brings the science. His thesis:

I think the financial crisis has helped expose a powerful bias in human decision-making, which is our abhorrence of uncertainty. We hate not knowing, and this often leads us to neglect relevant information that might undermine the certainty of our conclusions.



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