Behavioral Sink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral...
Do you think we are all vulnerable to this same pattern? Do you see it happening eventually, or do you think it is already happening? Why? Why not?
In my opinion, something that brings some hardship always happens eventually, might be the economy (GFC), COVID, a war, so although the developed world grew prosperous and fat, there is no utopian-like conditions like in this experiment. On the other hand, people do weird stuff for no good reason when things seem to be going just fine, so who knows.
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I would say we are at least vulnerable to related phenomena.
We do have the ability to plan ahead in a manner that other mammals can not, so we can adjust and ration expected limits in resources and space in a manner that animals are unable to.
Of course, this is a tricky thing to check for via experiment. Participants in any experiment that controls for "overpopulation" (in density rather than resources) in a confined space will know that it is an experiment and that the experience is limited in timespan.
However, you do have related phenomena. The most well known is the somewhat controversial "bystander effect" (controversial because it is not as straightforward as initial research claimed), where the likelihood of receiving help from bystanders can actually decrease with group size. Research in the 1980s showed (somewhat famously) that this effect is famously less pronounced in rural areas: https://www.researchgate.net/publication....
Along a similar vein, you also tend to see more violent crime and property crime in urban areas vs rural areas. But of course, you have so many confounding variables behind those numbers, that it will become very difficult to attribute it to simply density.
But, I would say that there is something to this, but care should be taken when it comes to speculating as to what variables cause it, and nor should one assume that this somehow holds true in all cases.
People are literally paying money for the possibility to cum while looking at a small electronic device so yes, the theory might be correct. Also there’s GTO
