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I was reading this article about the part of the brain that controls people's aversion to losing money, and this paragraph caught my attention: The researchers compared the women's responses to 12 people with undamaged brains. They noted this kind of study usually involves only a few people as it is not possible or ethical to deliberately damage a person's brain to see what happens. I would agree that it's certainly not ethical to damage ...

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