[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I am way to complicated to be studied ;-)

[A. Pole]

The US team found that people with certain brain injuries which suppress their emotions could make the best stock market traders.

Wow!

[Flavius]

well that explains why im doing good...


hopefully with future earnings i can afford a really good
shrink

then again maybe i dont one

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Counting the number of replies till someone mentions George Soros . . .

[Dumb_Ox]

Linking psychopathy with business seems to be an academic trend lately. There's some US corporate law professor who claims that corporations themselves behave in what would be called psychopathic were such behaviors seen in a lone person.

[RWR8189]

Hey, I invented the stock market!

[B.Bumbleberry]

They claim the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes.

Of course, why didn't I think of that. Real investing is making "high stakes gambles." What utter crock.

[traviskicks]

It has also been proven, mathetmatically, that investing in index funds is better than trying to play around in the market. Stock brokers and fund managers, besides those that use 'market tricks' (complex computer programs that exploit very small differences by using large funds), are generally all marketing a useless product... :)

Interesting about emotions, ties in with Ayn Rand objectivism and also a good deal of Eastern (meditative) thought.

[Thombo2]

Wasn't it Gordon Geko who said,"Greed is good"?He was kind of a cold character.

[Thombo2]

The movie was Wall Street.

[sheik yerbouty]

Would Ted Kennedy fit the bill?

[Heatseeker]

Could the authors of this study possibly have been one of the Greenpeace disruptors successfully fought off by London City traders? See this article for details.

Sod off swampy!

[NicknamedBob]

They don't fool me.

You'd have to be crazy to take this job.

[Redbob]

"Baba Shiv, of Stanford, added chillingly: “Many CEOs (chief executive officers) and many top lawyers might also share this trait."

As do, know doubt, allegedly intelligent researchers who make whacked-out statements like this one without the least shred of evidence.

[dennisw]

bttt

[Herakles]

So, if you are a socialist and have no “financial decisions” to make, does that mean you are brain dead?

This would lead to an interesting choice between being a poor brain dead socialist, a rich functioning psychopath, or some normal guy who eats pizza, drinks beer, an watches TV?

Decisions, decisions!

[TXBSAFH]

This could help explain free traitors.

[Bon mots]

It's a far stretch to saying that psychopaths make better business people from setting up a model where emotionless, risky behavior benefits those embracing it and seeing how emotionless risk-seeking people excel under such conditions.

Utter bull$#!+.

The headline is a total non-sequiter.

On the other hand, people with Aspberger's Syndrome do tend to excel in many areas, especially engineering and often business. But this is because they do not interact with others very well, and they tend to spend long hours in solitary, intense concentration usually working on something or another. That's why they used to call Aspberger's the "Engineer's Disease".

[Bon mots]

If anyone wants to read about real psychopaths, download the book The Mask of Sanity by Cleckler.

It's excellent and has a number of true case histories of real psychopaths and their activities.

THE MASK OF SANITY Free Download for study (Adobe Acrobat .pdf)