Vacationing in Thailand over Greece? That's the dopamine talking

People constantly make complex decisions, from the more mundane - which restaurant to go to for dinner or which movie to go see - to the more profound - whether to have kids or not. Now, a new study published online on November 12th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, confirms an important role for the brain chemical dopamine in how people make such life choices, by influencing our expectations of the pleasure associated with their outcomes...

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