In a preliminary study on equine training, Michigan State researchers found that while adding positive reinforcement did not make horses learn a frightening task faster than horses that were handled using only traditional negative reinforcement strategies, horses exposed to positive reinforcement did not learn the task any slower, either.

Furthermore, the addition of positive

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