When sports gambling is legalized, home team losses lead to a 10 percentage point increase intimate partner violence. The effect is stronger in states that allow mobile betting—particularly around paydays and when a home team is on a winning streak. https://t.co/shfUx3xb7F https://t.co/Z9KYlIgJRk
Virtually all the couples I see in extremis, like Stan and Lucy, lack a mechanism of correction.
If inhibiting emotion is good, is it possible that doing away with it altogether is even better? This is the line of thought pursued in a Stanford University study titled, ‘Investment Behavior and the Negative Side of Emotion’. Within, the researchers pitted 15 individuals with brain damage to their emotional processing centers against 15 “neurotyp
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