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I don’t remember which podcast I heard about this from, but ‘Superstition’ in the Pigeon by B.F. Skinner is apparently a psychology classic. In short, pigeons were given food by a “hopper” mechanism at regular intervals (say, fifteen seconds). The pigeons, however, became superstitious: Whatever they happened to be doing...

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Rain rain, please please stay You make the smoke go away Now I can go out and play Please come back here every day -Lottie

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