Seeman: What drove Titan's owner — and investors — to take such risks with the deep-sea submersible?

The neurotransmitter dopamine appears to be behind much risk\u002Dtaking behaviour.

investors pile cash into assets they don’t care to understand. By this measure, investors in OceanGate’s Titan submersible — which came to a disastrous end last month — were the opposite: smart. They knew the asset’s grave risks. They are, therefore, culpable for its deadly implosion.THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLYExclusive articles from Elizabeth Payne, David Pugliese, Andrew Duffy, Bruce Deachman and others.

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