Organic Chemicals: News and Research on Hydrocarbons, Cyclic

MeSH tree: D02.455.426

Post-exercise 'warm glow' increases generosity, study shows

You've just finished a workout, lungs burning, heart pumping, and you feel energized and ready to take on the day. That's your brain rewarding you with a hit of dopamine—the feel-good hormone that exercise is known to trigger.

Are we really programmed to be lazy?

For decades, psychology and neuroscience have suggested that if humans and animals naturally try to make as little effort as possible, it is because putting in the effort is not enjoyable.

page 2 from 40