{"id":716,"date":"2011-03-21T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2011-03-21T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T18:54:04","slug":"sapolsky-on-the-science-of-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Sapolsky on the Science of Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"296\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/axrywDP9Ii0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/axrywDP9Ii0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"296\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, compares dopamine levels in monkeys and humans.<\/p>\n<p>Sapolsky argues that in both, &#8220;Dopamine is not about pleasure, it&#8217;s about the anticipation of pleasure.&#8221; The difference from monkeys is that humans &#8220;keep dopamine levels up for decades waiting for the reward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, compares dopamine levels in monkeys and humans. Sapolsky argues that in both, &#8220;Dopamine is not about pleasure, it&#8217;s about the anticipation of pleasure.&#8221; The difference from monkeys is that humans &#8220;keep dopamine levels up for decades waiting for the reward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,27,20,59],"tags":[99,93,21,60],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-cognition","category-humannature","category-learningsystems","tag-biology","tag-cognition","tag-human-nature","tag-learning-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tribalcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}