The Pleasure Instinct: Why We Crave Adventure, Chocolate, Pheromones, and Music
From our enjoyment of music to our cravings for chocolate, from our love for children and family to our attraction to things of beauty, this book embarks on an intriguing and accessible exploration of the purpose of pleasure in our lives and in human history. How did pleasure evolve and why? How does it develop in children? How does the pursuit of pleasure play a critical role in brain development? The Pleasure Instinct explores everything we need to know about our urge to feel good.
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Book details
- Author
- Gene Wallenstein
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 256
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Science
- Topics
- evolutionary biology · human pleasure · neuroscience · human behavior · brain development · evolutionary psychology · popular science
- ISBN-13
- 9780471619154
About the author
GENE WALLENSTEIN, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and expert on the biology of emotions, and the author of more than fifty scholarly articles, abstracts, and book chapters. He is the author of Mind, Stress, and Emotions: The New Science of Mood.
Wallenstein was formerly a Fellow at Harvard University and an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Utah. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the International Brain Research Organization, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.