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‘Boiling Frog Syndrome’ and Why People Stay in Bad Relationships
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The Boiling frog syndrome
Have you heard of the Boiling frog syndrome? The expression originates from a fable about a frog that gets put into boiling water.
Upon encountering the hot water, the frog would, by reflex, jump out and save itself from dying.
If on the other hand, the frog is placed in cold or tepid water that gradually gets heated up, it will fail to perceive the danger and hence get cooked to death. From the research I have done, this is because the frog uses up all of its energy when trying to adjust to the ever-changing temperature of the water.
When the water then starts boiling, the energy depletion is such, that he/she simply does not have enough energy to jump out from the pot.
What killed the frog?
When first hearing the story, you might naturally conclude that the hot water kills the frog. This is of course partly true since the water has reached a temperature that is beyond what the frog can tolerate.
Upon reflecting more deeply, we can also see that the ultimate determining factor of…
