DOGS, WOLVES & US (The pneuma component)

Monday, May 28, 2012
This AM, on the Current, CBC.ca, I heard an interesting interview with neuroscientist, John Coates. It was about his recent book with the interesting title:
THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF

“The Hour Between Dog and Wolf--Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust.”

Penguin Press USA; Fourth Estate UK; Random House Canada

The book is based on a research paper that J Coates and J Herbert did in 2008, “Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor.”
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Research in Neuroscience suggests that the physical reactions on trading floors are similar to warzones or elite sports--[or fights between animals for dominance--] where the pressure to perform and survive is great. And that in such situations, the Visceral trumps the Rational.

The man behind that view spent years on the trading floor for the big players on Wall St. before investing in a degree in neuroscience. We speak with John Coates, author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf to explain his ideas.

http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jmc98
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http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/05/28/the-hour-between-dog-and-wolf-john-coates/

G~O~D--Now & ForeverIS:Nature, Nurture & PNEUMA-ture, Thanks to Warren Farr&ME AT www.unitheist.org