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Here's a thought. Helen Fisher's research categorises people into four dominant personality types based on levels of neurochemicals: http://socionist.blogspot.c

by jlees 15y ago

Here's a thought. Helen Fisher's research categorises people into four dominant personality types based on levels of neurochemicals: http://socionist.blogspot.com/2009/04/helen-fishers-types-explorer-builder.html http://socionist.blogspot.com/2009/04/helen-fishers-types-ex... For dopamine, which according to the cat article is elevated in Toxo-infected humans, the associated personality type is "risk-taking, curious, creative, impulsive, optimistic and energetic". Plus the associated decrease in fear response in rats: who does that sound like? i.e. I wonder what percentage of entrepreneurs are Toxo infected?

abecedarius 15y ago
Your question reminds me of a word one of my programs coined: entrepreneuropsychology.
rflrob 15y ago
Here's the question, though: are the risk-taking humans risk-taking because they're infected, or are they infected because they're risk taking. Correlation, unfortunately, doesn't imply causation. The "fatal attraction to cat urine" studies are somewhat imperfect [1]. I'm friends with a student who's doing similar studies with mice but with better spatial discrimination . The consensus seems to be that while the fear response goes down, the idea that it's attractive to the rodents is more difficult to replicate. [1] Free at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1690701/?tool=pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1690701/?tool=pu...