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How to make rational decisions
The role of biases in decision-making
The impact of social norms on decision-making
Behavioral conditioning
Lying keeps us hooked because we enjoy the reward. The outcomes are unpredictable.
Lying is reinforced every time we get away with it.
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Our reasons for lying
Where lying is concerned, we just can't seem to help ourselves.
We lie for two reasons: behavioral conditioning and cognitive evolutionary biology.
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Cognitive evolutionary biology
Lying is a valuable tool in our survival kit. We can spare someone's feelings or build social standing. Lying can keep us out of trouble or even save our lives.
Practicing deception starts as early as six months of age such as fake crying or laughter. But people only start to g...
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4. Always do your best
When you always do your best, you take action. Doing your best is taking action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward.
If you take action without expecting reward, you will find that you enjoy every action you do.
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The Benefits Of Intermittent Reinforcement
- Rewarding the behavior immediately may take time away from the behavior’s continuation.
- It’s cheaper not to reward every instance of a desired behavior.
- By making the rewards unpredictable, you trigger excitement and thus get an increase in response witho...
Variable Reward
- BF Skinner, a psychologist, found that if an action gives a variable, unpredictable reward, it is more frequently used and is addictive.
- Like a slot machine, the reward is not something that the user knows beforehand, providing a sense of wonder, intrigue and mystery.
- In t...
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