Scientists claim to have discovered a 'brain hack' to form good habits -- training it by simply repeating actions until they stick.
Researchers from University of Warwick in the UK have created a model which shows that forming good and bad habits depends more on how often you perform an action than on how much satisfaction you get from it.
They developed a computer simulation, in which digital rodents were given a choice of two levers, one of which was associated with the chance of getting a reward.
The lever with the reward was the 'correct' one, and the lever without was the 'wrong' one.
The chance of getting a reward was swapped between the two levers, and the simulated rodents were trained to choose the 'correct' one.
When the digital rodents were trained for a short time, they managed to choose the new, 'correct' lever when the chance of reward was swapped.'
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