When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“When men look at pictures of naked women, their startle response to loud noises diminishes. It seems that the dopamine surge mutes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“Evolution doesn't give a damn about your happiness, but will use the promise of happiness (using dopamine rushes) to keep you hunting,… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
We know that drugs, sex and rock and roll stimulates something called dopamine in the brain. So do videogames. Dopamine is something… — Devra Davis Copy Share Image
Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from...… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
“Of course, dopamine didn’t evolve for crossing arbitrary lines on the ground. It evolved to release energy when you’re about to meet… — Loretta Graziano Breuning Copy Share Image
The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, suppressing an impulse doesn’t always have to decrease your dopamine—it can actually feel good. The key is the prefrontal cortex, which… — Alex Korb Copy Share Image
“The Dopamine Paradigm by Stewart Stafford Never so connected, Yet, never further apart, A crowded room's isolation, An aspic suitors' false start.… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Dopamine is not just about reward anticipation; it fuels the goal-directed behavior needed to gain that reward; dopamine “binds” the value of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The release of dopamine is a form of information, a message that tells the organism “Do that again.” Dopamine produces the sensation… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“This,” Alaric explained to Sarah in what he thought was a kindly voice, “isn’t love you’re feeling. Only dopamine. Because Felix isn’t… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“The Seeking system was discovered when the psychologists James Olds and Peter Milner implanted an electrode into the middle of a rat… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Every squirt of dopamine ends, alas, and you only get more when your brain sees another chance to approach a reward. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“test subjects played a gambling game while Knutson and his team looked at which areas of their brains became more active. The… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“Altogether, these observations suggest that several processes contribute to psychotic experience: the loss of familiarity with the world, hypothetically associated with noisy… — Andreas Heinz Copy Share Image
“From another corner of neuroscience, we’re learning about a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Though there are more than fifty neurotransmitters (that we know… — Jeffrey Foote Copy Share Image
“Of all the chemical transmitter substances sloshing around in your brain, it appears that dopamine may be the most directly related to… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Mapenzi, kama ilivyo kwa vitu vyote hapa ulimwenguni, hayawezi kuwepo bila kujumuishwa na fizikia na kemia yake! Bila kemia hakuna mapenzi ya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt by the common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“The guy on the video said that the blink of connection on the cell phone when we get a text triggers… get… — Staci Stallings Copy Share Image
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“The neural-channeling devices attached to your head allow access to the temporal lobe . . . you can have anything you’d like.… — Cèsar Sanchez Zapata Cockaigne Copy Share Image
People say, "I wish I had more motivation today, because then I would try something." But our thinking is backward. The way… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
“In the basal forebrain there is something called the nucleus accumbens. It is a part of the brain’s reward system and has… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
“Logically, gambling shouldn’t evoke much anticipatory dopamine, given the astronomical odds against winning. But the behavioral engineering—the 24-7 activity and lack of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Do you know novelty can not only keep us engaged, but also serve as a source of motivation? When we are exposed… — Jennifer April Copy Share Image
Much of the early work focused on dopamine and we were really looking for rewarding sorts of effects and sure enough, we… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
“love: a chemical history. ...The second stage, attraction, is governed by dopamine and serotonin. When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“On average, dopamine receptor density is reduced in the VTA target regions of obese subjects as compared with those lean subjects (a… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt for a common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“Research shows that levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine surge when the brain is expecting a reward.[xi] Introducing variability multiplies the effect, creating… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“When we consider how overtargeted and overstimulated our dopamine neurons really are, it’s no surprise that the average person is an overweight… — Michael Matthews Copy Share Image
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