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The Neurochemicals of Love and Relationship. With Dr. Loretta Breuning

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The Good Feeling of Serotonin Is Triggered by Social Importance

In the animal world, it's easy to see that social dominance promotes survival. Natural selection is built a brain that rewards this with the good feeling of serotonin. People get on each other's nerves because each brain tries to stimulate serotonin in ways that worked for it before. Each of us wants social recognition. And we live in a world of 8 billion other people want social recognition.

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