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Neuroscience Bites - Why we like rare things

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The Scarcity Heristic

Olave cregolson is a neuro scientist at the university of victoria. He explains why we think diamonds are valuable, even though they're quite common. His research shows that our brains are hard wired to be sensitive to scarcity. The next time you're valuing what something's worth, make sure you just take a self check to sable.

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