RIFT #2

Pigeon
Andrew is a pigeon.
When he’s hungry, he starts acting weird…
He pecks at the ground even when nothing’s there.
Same spot. No reason.
Again…
And again…
And again…
Ethologists call it **random reinforcement**.
The pigeon linked a gesture to a reward… once.
So it repeats…
just in case…
Now, think of yourself.
You reopen an app.
You refresh your inbox for the third time.
You open Instagram again.
And you scroll…
You’re doing the pigeon.
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Too Short; Didn’t Get

In the 1950s, psychologist **B.F. Skinner** ran a famous experiment: he fed pigeons at random intervals. Very quickly, the birds tied the tiniest movement (turning a head, flicking a wing) to the reward. They got superstitious — repeating the gesture at random, hoping to trigger the effect. Decades later, researchers observe the **same phenomenon**… *📚 Skinner, B.F. (1948). “Superstition in the pigeon”. Journal of Experimental Psychology.* In our digital behavior.

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