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You Can’t Always Want What You Like

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Type One Fun Activities - Why Do We Need More Complex Pleasures?

There's a disconnect between the liking brain parts and the wanting brain parts. We get caught up in easy pleasures more often than we might intend to. The mesolimic hedonic hot spots kent studied in rats also light up when people experience more abstract rewards, like beautiful music in art. But scientists haven't looked for type too liking in the mesolimbic reward system all that much yet. It would be marvellous to have a human f m ori study of post exercise satisfaction.

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