Think fast! Take risks! New study finds a link between fast thinking and risk taking
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 07:00
in Psychology & Sociology
(Medical Xpress) -- New experiments show that the experience of thinking fast makes people more likely to take risks. This discovery suggests that some of the innovations of the modern worldfast-paced movies, social media sites with a constant flow of fresh updatesare pushing people toward riskier behavior. An article describing two experiments showing this effect will appear in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.