Stanford University researchers say that they have found people having higher levels of anticipatory worry to do better in a financial game during a study.
Gregory Samanez-Larkin, a psychology graduate student at Stanford, has revealed that the studys results were based on brain scans of activity in a part of the brain called anterior insula, which enables people to sense or monitor danger to a certain extent.
The researchers said that the subjects had "a higher fidelity when it comes to making economic decisions, when the anterior insula was more active.
"They were better at predicting what might happen," Live Science quoted Samanez-Larkin as saying.
He said that the participants learnt to avoid losses while playing the same game several months later.
"I wouldn't call it intelligence. (Instead), it's a sort of expertise," he added.
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