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Radio 4,1 min

Does tracking take away the pleasure of walking?

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Lots of us count steps in the hope of getting ourselves to walk a bit further. But experiments conducted by Prof Jordan Etkin at Duke University suggests that even with incentives, tracking can make strolling feel like work with long term consequences

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