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Fri, Jun 22, 2007 -- 6:33 AM

The Science of Making Financial Decisions
Have you ever looked at your credit card bill and thought you needed to have your head examined? Researchers at Stanford University are doing just that. They're using complex brain imaging to study how humans make financial decisions, and are finding that emotions play a large role in everyday purchases.

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