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Chapter 9: Emotion and Motivation

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The Sweet Spot

A study done in 1937 by Thorndike. asked people how much money he would have to pay them to do it. Spit on a crucifix, $300. Choke a stray cat to death, $10,000. Have one ear cut off, no sum. Eat a quarter pound of human flesh and then the fact you do so is going to appear on a front page of older New York newspapers,. no sum. And what I like about this is these are just cool answers and they're fun answers but they tell us what we want.

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