How We Learn from Our Mistakes

Eric wu submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.time.com)

Everyone can learn from their mistakes — but some people have genes that may make it harder. That's the message from German researchers, writing in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, who have shown how a common gene variant affects some people's ability to respond to, and learn from, the negative repercussions of their actions.

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The gene that makes us once bitten, twice shy

jane2007 submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.nature.com)

Most people tend to learn from their mistakes and avoid making the same blunder twice. Now research reveals a genetic mutation that helps to determine the extent to which certain people are doomed to repeat history.

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