pleasure-seeking
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The NAc helps govern motivation, pleasure-seeking behaviors, and impulse control.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
Most of us aren't these people, but likely wouldn't want anyone to become cruel because of our own pleasure-seeking behaviour either.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024
According to scientists, it is all about our brains' pleasure-seeking tendencies.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024
Mr. Libkin said that much of his staff had joined the army, but he wants to keep his restaurant open to maintain the pleasure-seeking character of the city.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023
It is evident that a large number of these men will be more refined and more highly educated than those who only play necessarily; the power of pleasure-seeking implies, in general, fortunate circumstances of life.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
