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1Centre for Addiction and Mental Health,Toronto,ON M5S 2S1,Canada.martin.zack@camh.ca.
Abstract:
The "incentive hope" model creatively explains hoarding and fat accumulation by foragers under uncertainty and food seeking when food cues are present but food is not. The model has difficulty explaining why animals driven by cues fare better than animals driven by food reward itself, why human obesity exists when food is abundant, and why people enjoy gambling and care about winning.
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