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The Pleasure Instinct: Why We Crave Adventure, Chocolate, Pheromones, and Music
ISBN: 978-0-471-61915-4
Hardcover
256 pages
December 2008
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Acknowledgments.

PART ONE The Pleasure Instinct and Brain Development.

1 Foibles and Follies.

2 How to Win Friends and Infl uence People.

3 What Makes Sammy Dance?

PART TWO The Pleasures of the Sensory World.

4 The Pleasure of Touch.

5 In Praise of Odors.

6 For the Love of Chocolate.

7 The Evolution of the Lullaby.

8 In Search of Pretty Things.

PART THREE The Pleasure Instinct and the Modern Experience.

9 Pleasure from Proportion and Symmetry.

10 Pleasure from Repetition and Rhythm.

11 Homo Addictus.

12 Parsing Pleasure.

Notes.

Index.