Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

The Pleasures and Pains of "Maybe"

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The Pleasures and Pains of "Maybe"

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Originally produced by The Teaching Company/The Great Courses in 2012

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For a long time, scientists thought that the neurotransmitter dopamine was directly related to pleasure. But it turns out that dopamine is more about the anticipation of reward than the reward itself. Here, plunge into the neuroscience behind why we're willing to deal with such long delays in gratification, and what it says about human motivation and addiction

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