Erman Misirlisoy

🎭 What Low Self-Esteem Looks Like in the Brain Understanding the neural overlap between how you see yourself and how others see you

New data suggests people with low self-esteem see themselves very similarly to how other people see them.

The lower your self-esteem, the more your brain activity patterns overlap with other people’s brain activity patterns when they think about you.

Self-esteem may rely on self-enhancing beliefs.

Hi J.K, thanks for reaching out! Risk & Progress is a fascinating publication too. I think it has some useful conceptual overlap with my own writing so would love to collab in some way.

Happy to do guest posts or listen to any other ideas you might have. Please feel free to DM on Substack

People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out - Daniel Bennett, Lucy Albertella, Laura Forbes, Ty Hayes, Antonio Verdejo-Garcia, Lukasz Walasek, Elliot A. Ludvig, 20... After a risky choice, decision makers must frequently wait out a delay period before the outcome of their choice becomes known. In contemporary sports-betting a...

If you want the full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Betting apps know how to nudge extra money out of you.

A paper last year showed that when a gambler has the option to “cash out” early after placing a bet, the total amount they’re willing to bet increases by up to 35%.

That’s why practically all sports betting apps now offer this option.