Here are some more examples of feedback loops you might be familiar with:
Reinforcing – Two teens in love – the attention one pays to the other draws them in to pay more attention in kind
- Two teens visibly in love
- One says something/does something to show their love
- Two teens visibly in love
- The other feels that love and responds with their own gesture
- Return to start.
Balancing – Fashion trends emerging and eventually going away
- Everyone is dressing the same
- Someone tries something new
- People like it and start to copy it
- Now everyone is doing it, people lose interest and go back to wearing what they did before
- Return to start