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Humans like to believe that what they don't know can't hurt them. Now, a new study out of the University of Chicago suggests that tendency develops before we even hit our teenage years. Known as the ...

Some of us don’t like budgeting. Some of us don’t like paying bills. Some of us don’t even open our mail until we see that pink paper in the envelope window (you know who you are). Some of us… are ...

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