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'Hot' decision-making, involving the evaluation of reward and punishment, is essential to the entrepreneurial process and may be possible to teach, argue Barbara Sahakian and her coauthors.

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Figure 1: How many moves?
Figure 2: Place your bets.
Figure 3: Risk taking.

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  1. in the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry, Andrew Lawrence, Luke Clark, Jamie Nicole, Labuzetta and Barbara Sahakian are at the MRC-Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK. lc260@cam.ac.uk.,

    Andrew Lawrence, Luke Clark, Jamie Nicole Labuzetta & Barbara Sahakian

  2. Shai Vyakarnum is at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QA, UK.,

    Shai Vyakarnum

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Lawrence, A., Clark, L., Labuzetta, J. et al. The innovative brain. Nature 456, 168–169 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456168a

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