Rapid Thinkers Take Greater Risks
The Atlantic:
Pop quiz: do you consider yourself a fast thinker or a slow thinker? Time’s up! If you took less than a second to answer that, you might be more of a risk-taker.
That’s according to new research (via Psychology Today) from a team of Princeton scientists who thought there might be a causal relationship between the speed of a person’s thought and their willingness to embrace dangerous behavior, such as illegal drug use and unprotected sex.
The researchers, Emily Pronin and Jesse Chandler, ran two tests in a study that appeared this month in Psychological Science. Participants were divided into two groups. One group was primed by being asked to read a set of trivia statements at twice their normal reading speed, while members of the other group were asked to read the same statements at half-speed.
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