Mind Spectrum
Your Brain Is Lying to You - The Dopamine Prediction Error
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Why does the thing you’ve been looking forward to for weeks feel… meh? Why does a random compliment stick with you longer than a planned celebration?
The answer isn’t that you’re hard to please. It’s a tiny mathematical formula running in your brain every second of every day: Actual experience minus Expectation equals Dopamine release.
In this episode, we trace the discovery of the dopamine…