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Money Relieves Pain
LiveScience ^ | Fri Jul 24, 2009 | Robert Goodier

Posted on 07/25/2009 6:53:38 AM PDT by presidio9

Money dulls physical pain and eases the sting of social rejection, new research shows.

Through six experiments, psychologists and a marketing professor probed the power of money as a proxy for social acceptance. Among their results, they found that merely touching bills or thinking about expenses paid affected the participants both physically and emotionally.

Because it affects pain, money may be a clue to how the brain evolved to process social interactions, the researchers wrote in a paper published in the June edition of the journal Psychological Science.

In one experiment, 84 undergraduate student volunteers were divided into two groups and asked to take a "finger-dexterity test." One group counted 80 $100 bills from a stack, the other group counted paper. Afterward, the volunteers played Cyberball, a computer game in which four players passed a ball to each other. They were told that they were playing with three real people, but in fact a computer simulated the other players. In half of the games, all the players received the ball an equal number of times, but the other half was rigged against the human players,

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: backoffimascientist; mastersoftheobvious

1 posted on 07/25/2009 6:53:38 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9
Money dulls physical pain

No anaesthetic, doc, just gimme a roll of hundreds....

2 posted on 07/25/2009 6:58:15 AM PDT by Loyalist (If a tree falls in the forest, and the media is not there to cover it, does it make a headline?)
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To: presidio9

I don’t know about this study, but I can tell you that seven years ago my family was living pay check to pay check at best and my wife and I would worry about money and bills and had arguments daily. Today we don’t even look at the bank account. We pay bills, buy what we want and never worry a minute about money because we have a very nice cushion. What a difference having money means to a relationship. (We are not rich but we have enough to not sweat money issues every night). The only discussions we will probably have is buying a car, house and major things like that. It is 100 percent wonderful.


3 posted on 07/25/2009 7:02:51 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: presidio9

I’d like to soak in bathtub full of it.


4 posted on 07/25/2009 7:03:23 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: presidio9

And buys more shoes. ;)


5 posted on 07/25/2009 7:04:26 AM PDT by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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6 posted on 07/25/2009 7:05:48 AM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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7 posted on 07/25/2009 7:06:04 AM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: Loyalist

Like the ol’ Eddards saying, “Whether you are rich or Poor, Money is a nice thing to have”.
barbra ann


8 posted on 07/25/2009 7:06:37 AM PDT by barb-tex (Regardless of what you may have heard Sarah is not gone!)
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To: Miss Didi

And in other breaking news, the sun rose in the east this morning.


9 posted on 07/25/2009 7:06:43 AM PDT by p. henry
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To: presidio9

I can’t afford money, but I have a big bottle of ibuprofen, and an even bigger bottle of vodka. Hey, speaking of which, did you know it’s 5 PM in Minsk?


10 posted on 07/25/2009 7:07:43 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: napscoordinator

That is wonderful I am glad to hear you have enough money so that you don’t have to worry about it, same here. But one of the most miserable people I know also has the most money of anyone I know. Tons of money has not made her happy.


11 posted on 07/25/2009 7:11:39 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: barb-tex

And it was Sophie Tucker who observed,

“I’ve been poor, and I’ve been rich. Rich is better.”

(Where is Captain Obvious when you need him?”

;^)


12 posted on 07/25/2009 7:19:32 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: Dallas59

I’d like to soak in bathtub full of it.

13 posted on 07/25/2009 7:23:41 AM PDT by presidio9 ("Don't shoot. Let 'em burn.")
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To: presidio9

I am wlling to have a green poultice applied to my hand to ease the pain in my head over Obamacare.


14 posted on 07/25/2009 8:01:49 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: presidio9

Hmmm Money and cussing now relive pain.........I need 50cc’s of Cash right F’in now doc....LOL


15 posted on 07/25/2009 8:45:30 AM PDT by jakerobins ( NO)
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To: elcid1970
And it was Sophie Tucker who observed,
“I’ve been poor, and I’ve been rich. Rich is better.”

I always thought that it was Liza Minnelli...

Regards,
GtG

16 posted on 07/25/2009 10:36:24 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: presidio9

Well, it helps. But ultimately, with apologies to the underground cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, hope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no hope.


17 posted on 07/25/2009 10:38:55 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

I’m pretty sure it was Sophie Tucker because it dates back before Liza began her showbiz career.

About the same time in the 1950’s, Sophie was backstage on the Ed Sullivan show awaiting her cue. The act preceding hers was a troupe of midgets. Suddenly, all the lights went out and there was pandemonium.

Amidst the confusion Sophie was heard to yell, “Somebody get the lights back on! I’m up to my `who’s this?’ in midgets!”


18 posted on 07/25/2009 11:40:53 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: mysterio
I can’t afford money, but I have a big bottle of ibuprofen, and an even bigger bottle of vodka. Hey, speaking of which, did you know it’s 5 PM in Minsk?

I like your approach to some of life's realities, even in jest.

19 posted on 07/25/2009 11:52:50 AM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: varon

I never joke about vodka. I’m always game for a good ibuprofen joke, though. My knee is telling me one right now.


20 posted on 07/25/2009 12:43:32 PM PDT by mysterio
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