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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