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
He predicted then that “a day will come no doubt, when the invalid and pleasure-seeking portion of the white race will assemble here to drink and bathe in these waters.… “
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
No frivolous pleasure-seeking villain could have spoken in that way—none but the most consummate hypocrite could have uttered those simple sentiments in so masterly a fashion.
From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville
