A study from Cambridge University trained monkeys to expect either 2 or 20 liquid treats for completing certain tasks. Think of these rewards as income earned for doing their job. Once those baseline expectations were set, the researchers would unexpectedly give them 4 (instead of 2) or 40 (instead of 20) reward units. The crazy thing is the magnitude of the increase in reward didn’t matter — the dopamine rele...

source: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/10/high-earner-not-yet-rich/