Fifty percent of participants indicated that they have discovered a colleague engaging in wrongful behavior and 32% of participants indicated that they have discovered a person of greater authority engaging in wrongful behavior.

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Thus, says Minsky, the longer the period of stability, the higher the potential risk for even greater instability when market participants must change their behavior.

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When positions and exposures cannot be determined rapidly--as was the case, for example, when program trades overwhelmed the system during the 1987 stock market crash--potential outcomes include highly risk-averse behavior by market participants, sharp declines in market liquidity, and high volatility in asset prices.

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Suicidal thinking, also known as suicidal ideation, doesn't always progress to suicidal behavior (none of the participants attempted suicide during the study).

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They were central bankers, regulators, and market participants used to coping with the imperfections, excesses, and the frailties of human behavior.

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Indeed, an expectation by financial market participants that financial crises will never occur would create its own form of moral hazard and encourage behavior that would make financial crises more, rather than less, likely.

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The results showed that participants given the fake cigarette as treatment, and who were identified as being heavily dependent on the behavior of smoking, had a quit rate roughly 3.5 times higher than those in the standard-treatment group (67% vs. 19%).

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The study does not, however, prove that the signals from sweat that the participants' brains responded to are "pheromones, " chemicals found in animals that communicate information and influence responses in behavior and physiology.

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