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448. The Downside of Disgust

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Is It True That Incentives Lead to Worse Decision Making?

Repugnance would seem at least moderately linked to disgust, as it often centers round the human body. But is it true that incentives lead to worse decision making? We have all these laws that are based on this hunch and they haven't been empirically tested. So that's the main question that i want to answer. I got to wondering whether the field of economics had anything worth while to say about disgustcono don't usually think about disgust. That's sandro ambule an economist at the university of zuric. He set out to answer this question with a set of experiments....

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