Handling Money Brings Pain Relief 103
Psychologists at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management have found that handling money can alleviate both physical and emotional pain. In one experiment, test subjects were found to feel less pain when their hands were dipped into scalding water after counting money. Lead author Kathleen Vohs said, "When people are reminded of money in a subtle manner by counting out hard currency, they experience painful situations as being not very painful. You could think about being able to charge yourself up before you encounter pain. When I used to run marathons, I would've maybe wanted to be reminded of money first."
I think it's obvious (Score:5, Insightful)
Psychologists at the University of Minnesota's Carleton *School of Management*
Does anyone else see the correlation? Their sample group was entirely MBA-types.
Ig Nobel? (Score:2, Insightful)
Like smiling? (Score:3, Insightful)
Perhaps it's similar to how making someone smile affects the person who smiles?
Of course, that would be kinda sad if money has gotten so all-important to people's emotional and mental well-being.
That's part sarcasm and part observation about how our very materialistic society has changed our core values to create such a situation where one has to recognize the "importance" of money at least in order to survive in this society...
Re:I think it's obvious (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm glad you're so much smarter than those researchers would couldn't possibly know about sampling bias.