Your Dog’s Personality Can Change Over Time
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🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how having hope for the future could protect you from risky behaviors like drinking and gambling; how your dog’s personality can change over time; and “limnic eruptions” — or, deadly exploding lakes.
Having hope for the future could protect you from risky behaviors like drinking and gambling by Kelsey Donk
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Your Dog's Personality Can Change Over Time by Mae Rice
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These Exploding Lakes Killed Thousands of People in an Instant by Reuben Westmaas
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:04.8 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about how you can change your outlook to cut down on risk-taking behavior |
| 0:12.0 | like drinking and gambling, how your dog's personality |
| 0:15.2 | can change over time, and deadly exploding lakes. |
| 0:20.9 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:23.4 | According to new research, there's a surprising trick |
| 0:27.0 | that can protect us from risky behaviors |
| 0:29.3 | like excessive drinking and gambling. |
| 0:31.8 | It's hope. |
| 0:34.0 | Having hope for the future can reduce risk-taking behavior and help people stay in control. |
| 0:39.0 | And yeah, if that sounds simplistic, |
| 0:42.0 | don't worry, stick around. |
| 0:44.0 | We've got some science-backed ways to boost hope too. |
| 0:48.0 | In three studies, researchers took a look at what makes people take excessive risks. |
| 0:52.8 | It all starts with something called relative deprivation. |
| 0:56.6 | That's a belief that you're in a worse position |
| 0:58.7 | than other people. |
| 1:00.1 | Now, past research has found a link between relative deprivation and a whole slew of unhealthy behaviors. |
| 1:06.6 | And one of them is excessive risk-taking. We're talking drinking, doing drugs, gambling, even overeating. |
| 1:14.0 | But not everyone who experiences relative deprivation also ends up taking excessive risks. |
| 1:20.0 | So the researchers wondered if having hope for the future could reduce the negative effects of relative deprivation. |
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