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You Can’t Always Want What You Like

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Why I Can't Choose Harder Type Two Rewards

Kent Bearage is a world expert on the nervous ence of reward, and has done some of the best empirical work to day. His research goal was to find the brains hedonic hot spots, the neural regions that cause us to experience a sense of liking. He planned to stimulate a part of the brain known as the mesolimbic reward circuit but found they were all clustered together. Wanting regions are much bigger than liking regions,. And despite being relatively stingy about liking, natural selection seems to have really invested with wanting regions. We'd live a life of hetonic contentment if our brains had been designed for pleasure.

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