The Soothing Effects Of Money

Twist your ankle? Break up with your boy/girlfriend? Any kind of pain at all, no matter the source, try counting money to ease the discomfort. Experiments done at Carleton School of Management indicate that handling money causes both physical and mental pain to be less acute. Perhaps it is some sort of placebo affect, just thinking you have money makes you feel better, like just thinking you've been given medicine helps with illness. Oh to be a bank teller!

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Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 12, 2010
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interesting! maybe handling money releases endorphins. or maybe, like one commenter said at the link, its the cocaine residue on the bills.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 04/12/10 at 08:19 AM

Been there, done that. Money is only heavy paper. We loaded $3.5M cash onto our ship before deploying for a long cruise. Mostly in $20 bills. The @##$@ is HEAVY!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/12/10 at 09:09 AM

yeah, but according to the above study, your back should have hardly hurt at all! 😜

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 04/12/10 at 09:58 AM

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