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
Though the pursuit of the couple by these pleasure-seeking killers inherently provides suspense, once the script, written by MacKay and Sean McAulay, turns to Brooke, the film conjures giddy intensity.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022
The pleasure-seeking youths wandered to Spa and Pyrmont; hardly any now but the citizens of Switzerland assembled at the baths of Zurich.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav