As a general matter, I think when Americans are asked this question at a time of an economic downturn, I'm not surprised that they give anegativeanswer.
Ask someone whose knowledge of Wall Street is limited to Gordon Gekko what they think of Goldman Sachs and chances are their answer will be anegative one.
By scanning the brains of people while they learned from positive and negative information about the future we uncovered a possible answer to this puzzle.