The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
But it's exactly what you're talking about. You know, it takes some time of feeling safe for somebody to stop just thinking they need to fight for survival and safety. And then it seems that the dopamine system can then adjust its baseline so that it can now work for rewards again.
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If a human or an animal um sadly uh is raised in conditions or spends enough time in conditions where true rewards aren't there and survival itself becomes the reward, the dopamine system will adjust its baseline so that it's just fighting for the survival. And it's important when you're fighting for survival to recognize and anticipate negative events. And so the Anderman's work shows that it does prediction on the outcome that's going to be negative and it gives you a positive pulse for that.