This research raises the possibility of using tests of interoceptive awareness as a recruitment tool, to be used alongside regular interviews and psychometric testing, to help spot risk takers with good gut feelings. Could we also monitor traders’ gut feelings while they take risks? Today a range of monitors can record heart rate, pulse, respiratory cycle, galvanic skin conductance and so on, and do so noninvasively. In fact, physiological monitoring of traders has been suggested by the magazine The Economist, when reporting on a result that emerged from one of our studies, mentioned earlier,
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