{"id":6909,"date":"2021-01-21T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T07:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2021-09-16T10:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T03:34:24","slug":"the-molecule-of-more-how-a-single-chemical-in-your-brain-drives-love-sex-and-creativity-and-will-determine-the-fate-of-the-human-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/?p=6909","title":{"rendered":"The molecule of more : how a single chemical in your brain drives love, sex, and creativity-and will determine the fate of the human race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.mahidol.ac.th\/record=b1503153a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6906 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/77041-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL NO<\/strong> WK725 L716m 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>AUTHOR<\/strong> Lieberman, Daniel Z., 1964-<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPRINT<\/strong> Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., c2018<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them?<\/p>\n<p>Why is addiction \u201cperfectly logical\u201d to an addict?<\/p>\n<p>Why does love change so quickly from passion to disinterest?<\/p>\n<p>Why are some people diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?<\/p>\n<p>Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times\u2014and so good at figuring them out?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas\u2014and progress itself.<\/p>\n<p>Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more\u2014more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for the thrill of someone new. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it\u2019s why we gamble and squander.<\/p>\n<p>From dopamine\u2019s point of view, it\u2019s not the having that matters. It\u2019s getting something\u2014anything\u2014that\u2019s new. From this understanding\u2014the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it\u2014we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion \u2013 and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and others.<\/p>\n<p>In The Molecule of More: How a Single Molecule in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity\u2014and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives really are different.<\/p>\n<p>Source :\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benbellabooks.com\/shop\/the-molecule-of-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.benbellabooks.com\/shop\/the-molecule-of-more\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALL NO WK725 L716m 2018 AUTHOR Lieberman, Daniel Z., 1964- IMPRINT Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., c2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1719],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-book-releases","tag-dopamine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}