Sadness can make you burn bags

Feelings of sadness, boredom, frustration can make you trade with money, psychologists claim.

The latest research from Harvard University shows that people often make bad financial decisions when they are in a situation of fatigue, boredom, misery.

To reach this conclusion, the team showed volunteers a very sad video, before asking them to go through three other experiments on spending money, Telegraph reported.

Sadness makes it easy to make bad financial decisions

They found that those who watch the video will tend to choose high-profit investments in the short term but in the long run they will bring in less profits. After all three experiments, these volunteers earn much less than those who have never seen a sad film. On average, their long-term income is 13-34% less than other volunteers.

According to scientists, sadness has caused a corollary phenomenon called 'current bias', when we prioritize immediate rewards or satisfaction that ignore long-term opportunities.

Dr. Jennifer Lerner said the above experiments, combined with the research methods of psychology and economics, reveal that those who are sad are not really wise when having to decide financial issues. main.

Jennifer believes that better understanding of the moods of financial decisions will help us better deal with the economic problems caused by credit cards.