Living on autopilot: the role of dopamine

Do you ever Google a healthful diet for your cat but end up scrolling through pet meme videos? You unintentionally do this because your attention is distracted by the pet videos that make you happy. Humans are attracted to rewarding cues in the environment, like memes, deviating from the actions we were actually planning to do. This is a hardwired bias that shapes our behavior automatically. Our recent study shows that the amount of the brain chemical dopamine might explain these mindless actions.

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Post by Ping Chen at Donders Wonders