If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Robert M. Sapolsky
If a rat is a good model for your emotional...
If a rat is a good model for your emotional...
If a rat is a good model for your emotional...
If a rat is a good model for your emotional...
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The rat is a creature that has been used as a model for studying emotions since the early 1900s. The rat is a good model because it can display such a variety of emotions (anger, fear, sadness, grief, sexual arousal and social attachment) as well as behaviors. These include burying food and attacking intruders. You don't want to be that rat or that emotional specimen; you want to be the kind of person who is calm and rational and gets along with everybody and everything. (An emotional specimen is someone who acts like a rat.)

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