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Colin DeYoung || Cybernetics and the Science of Personality

The Psychology Podcast

CHAPTER

The Role of Dopamine in Human Behavior and Cognition

This chapter discusses the role of dopamine in human behavior and cognition, clarifying misconceptions and highlighting its relationship to personality traits such as extraversion and introversion. It also explores the connection between dopamine neurons and the salience network, as well as the role of the status network in directing attention and task engagement.

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