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Christopher in Tagata So here's the gamble. 20 bucks

guaranteed or a 50-50 chance of winning 60 bucks. Which would you choose? The

answer might actually be evident in a brain scan,

according to a study in which researchers posed actual terms like that

to 108 young adults, and the stakes were real.

The initial choice and then the outcome if they

pick the bet determine how much they'd walk away with after the study. The

research is in the journal Neuron. It does work out in our favor that people are

risk-erverse because it means that on average we're going to be paying people less than we would otherwise.

Joe Cable, a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania.

After he and his team recorded the subject's appetite for risk,

they scanned their brains using various techniques that visualize anatomy

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