![]() His self-defense habits, he argued, had kicked in, and thus he bore no blame. Just a few years earlier, a man in Britain had defended himself from murdering his wife as they slept by claiming that he suffered from 'night terrors,' and that he had strangled her while dreaming of an intruder. I spoke to Reza Habib when I was reporting my book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, because I was researching the case of a woman named Angie Bachmann who had lost of $1 million gambling, and then had claimed in court that she shouldn't be held accountable for her losses, because the casinos had taken advantage of gambling habits over which she had no control. ![]() In 2010, a cognitive neuroscientist named Reza Habib asked twenty-two people to lie inside an MRI and watch a slot machine spin around and around. ![]() ![]() Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business ( Random House, 2012) by Charles Duhigg ![]()
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