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Our minds may have a bias to keep wanting more — even if it leads to unhappiness, shows computational modeling study

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Our minds may have a bias to keep wanting more — even if it leads to unhappiness, shows computational modeling study

image: Researchers model the interaction between expectations, comparisons, and happiness view more 

Credit: Fab Lentz (@fossy), Unsplash (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010316

Article Title: The pursuit of happiness: A reinforcement learning perspective on habituation and comparisons

Author Countries: United States, Germany

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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