December 2010
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November 2010
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This is classic my mom. Listen closely to the speaker. Transcription: “…and a mother who likes her hypnotiq! Hahaha I mean hip-no-teek! …what’s she doin’? Is she doing THAT again?! I haaaaaate thaaaaaat!!!! I hate it when she does thaaaaat!!!”
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Why Making Dinner Is a Good Idea →
It turns out that the Ikea effect also applies to food, at least in mice. The experiment was simple: Mice were trained to push levers to get one of two rewards. If they pressed lever A, they got a delicious drop of sugar water. If they pressed lever B, they got a different tasting drop of sugar water. (This reward was made with polycose, not sucrose.)