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Jeannette Desor

“Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive — only the rat does as well.”
- Jeannette Desor,
- in Ellen Ruppel Shell, "Chemists Whip Up a Tasty Mess of Artificial Flavors," Smithsonian (1986)

Jeannette Desor, U.S. experimental psychologist

(1942)