12 June 2008

Parting (with stuff) is such sweet sorrow....


deck_clutter
Originally uploaded by triviaqueen
... or at least pain.

Psychologists at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered the following tidbit:

"...the insula, which has a role in the experience of pain, and the greater mesial prefrontal cortex became activated when the subjects contemplated selling one of their items"


This explains a whole lot about the feelings of malaise I sometimes experience when trying to reduce accumulated clutter....

[full story -- as seen on BoingBoing]

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