"I hate and love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured."
Catullus 85, by Roman poet Catullus, offers a summary of the two perhaps most intense human emotions. The sentiments of love and hate has long been an area of interest and research of the neuroscience and psychology communities, and is also a subject with great relevancy to market participants. In a study titled Neural Correlates of Hate, by Samir Seki and Paul Romaya, the authors sought to crack the code and make sense of love and hate. At risk of over-generalising, what they found was hate and love share some commonalities within the inner workings of the brain. Long-term pr...
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