Early Experiences Set Expectations

It's still an open question to what degree early experiences might matter more it could be that these early experiences set your expectations in a stronger way than subsequent evidence you get as an adult does. We call that paper rational snacking so until we post rational snacking paper. It wasn't until after that somebody pointed out to me that in some cases early experiences trigger things that you can't take back. So, for example, if you are a baby bear in a food scarce environment, you go through puberty earlier and you adopt a totally different mating strategy. If you then find yourself in a food rich environment, you can’t take back puberty it happened. There's some degree of that