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Yet it was just this kind of risk-reward miscalculation
: Wall Street’s judgment was
clouded by a strange brew of (1) lemming-like behavior, (2) the opportunity to earn large
transaction fees, (3) the fear of losing market share to competitors, and (4) the inability to
properly balance opportunity against risk.
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Too much power was concentrated in the hands of aggressive risk-takers
: Interview
with the author, March 5, 2009.
31.
 
“For twenty years, the DNA”
: Fareed Zakaria, “There Is a Silver Lining,” 
Newsweek
,

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October 11, 2008.
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Vincent Kaminski
: Steven Pearlstein, “The Art of Managing Risk,” 
The Washington Post
,
November 8, 2007. See also Alexei Barrionuevo, “Vincent Kaminski: Sounding the Alarm But
Unable to Prevail,” in “10 Enron Players: Where They Landed After the Fall,” 
The New York
Times
, January 29, 2006. And see Kurt Eichenwald, 
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
(New
York: Broadway, 2005), 250.
33.
 
Imagine that you’ve been invited to Newman’s lab
: C. M. Patterson and Joseph Newman,
“Reflectivity and Learning from Aversive Events: Toward a Psychological Mechanism for the
Syndromes of Disinhibition,” 
Psychological Review
100 (1993): 716–36. Carriers of the s-
variant of the 5HTTLPR polymorphism (which is associated with introversion and
sensitivity) have also been show to be faster to learn to avoid penalizing stimuli in passive
avoidance tasks. See E. C. Finger et al., “The Impact of Tryptophan Depletion and 5HTTLPR
Genotype on Passive Avoidance and Response Reversal Instrumental Learning Tasks,”
Neuropsychopharmacology
32 (2007): 206–15.
34.