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Rats Can Feel Regret Like Humans, Study Reveals
Sci-News.com ^
| June 08, 2014
| Adam P Steiner & A David Redish
Posted on 06/10/2014 5:57:55 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
According to a new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, rats can feel regret a cognitive behavior once thought to be uniquely human.
Regret is the recognition that you made a mistake, that if you had done something else, you would have been better off, said Prof David Redish from the University of Minnesota, who is the senior author on the study.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: rats
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To: Malone LaVeigh
To: Malone LaVeigh
rats can feel regret but apparently not for trading 5 high value terrorist leaders for one deserter.
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:59:30 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!! (Keeper of the Sick Individuals pinglist))
To: Malone LaVeigh
I don’t believe it. If they did they wouldn’t have put the o in the WH for a second term.
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posted on
06/10/2014 6:00:03 AM PDT
by
Portcall24
(aer)
To: Sacajaweau
I am afraid, I must disagree with the conclusion of this study.
DemocRATS regret nothing. Nothing I tell you.
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posted on
06/10/2014 6:01:08 AM PDT
by
Tupelo
(I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Yeah, but do they act upon it?
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posted on
06/10/2014 6:01:19 AM PDT
by
polymuser
To: Malone LaVeigh
"Well, Damnit!"
To: Tupelo
The only thing rats regret is the lost election.
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posted on
06/10/2014 6:03:43 AM PDT
by
Leo Carpathian
(FReeeeepeesssssed)
To: Malone LaVeigh
In before the usual “Who paid for this study?” statement.
So dependable.
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posted on
06/10/2014 6:04:42 AM PDT
by
OldPossum
("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Because they voted for Obama?
To: Malone LaVeigh
*Regrats..... I've had a few.....scooby...dooo...dooo....dooo*
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posted on
06/10/2014 6:05:19 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: Malone LaVeigh
So Rats are more human that DemocRats.
Not all that surprising. I suspected it for some time.
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posted on
06/10/2014 6:13:24 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Then they simply lie to themselves, to feel good about themselves.
That's what is of utmost importance to Rats - that they feel good about themselves.
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posted on
06/10/2014 6:23:36 AM PDT
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
But, unlike Humans, Rats will always say Chuck Hagel makes all the bad decisions.
To: Malone LaVeigh
I thought this was going to and article about the election of BHO.
To: Daffynition
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posted on
06/10/2014 6:40:18 AM PDT
by
Gefn
(More cowbell)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Another attempt by the state-run media to give favorable publicity to King Barack I, I see.
To: Malone LaVeigh
I always wanted to know about that...
Thank goodness they spent umpteen millions of the taxpayers money in grants to find out...
To: TexasCajun
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posted on
06/10/2014 7:01:39 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
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