
Break Your Bad Habits by Escaping the Scarcity Loop
The Art of Manliness
The role of understimulation and its contribution to the scarcity loop
Research highlights the role of understimulation in our environment and its contribution to the scarcity loop. In an experiment with pigeons, researcher Thomas Zental turns them into degenerate gamblers but when placed in a larger cage resembling their natural environment, they stop playing the gambling game and make better decisions. This suggests that humans are not so different from animals.
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