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It’s a shame Hong Kong has developed an aversion to this sunlight, but investor beware.

In ‘Critique of Judgment,’ Immanuel Kant argues that taste—the discerning appreciation of the beautiful and good—requires the critic to remain disinterested, unmoved by their own feelings of delight or aversion.

Another reason is rooted in what psychologists call loss aversion.

Many of James’s business deals generally show his aversion to risking money.

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And you also have to divide by your personal degree of risk aversion, because each person can tolerate a different amount of risk.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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