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Other scientific understandings about the limits to rationality.
[Emotion can disrupt reasoning.] …a patient is more likely to prefer a treatment if told that 90 percent of those treated are alive five years later, than if told that 10 percent are dead….Physicians respond no differently than non-physician patients.
Damasio, Antonio R., "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain", Penguin Books, 1994, 53-4
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