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The Intelligence from The Economist

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How to Associate a Cause With an Effect

John Sutter plays some sounds and asks his listeners to tell him how they feel. He finds that these sounds can trigger emotions, similar to Pavlov's famous experiment with dogs way back in 1897. This associative learning where we're associating a cause with an effect is central to how animals, how we learn and how we deal with the world.

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