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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
The Psychology of Selfies and Operant Conditioning
Delving into the reasons behind selfie-taking habits, this chapter explores the significance of selfies in modern society and debates whether they reflect personalities or vanity. It further explains operant conditioning through a comparison to training animals and an experiment involving rats taking selfies for rewards, drawing parallels to human social media engagement.
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