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and how it enables us to want things we like by /earning about the

conscious and unconscious influences on our choices

the experiences we like are rewarding and good for our health. Often

and make rational plans to experience them again. Often

and the events we experience. Learning allows us to predict situations that generate

their desires are simple: milk and warmth from their mothers

additional warmth and protection from fathers; for the record

as no other ape and virtually no other monkeys express a paternal instinct.

desires shift to other resources that can satisfy hunger and thirst

and the corresponding effects of sex-specific selection on the mind

avoiding harm and minimizing risk. On the other hand

the motivation to fight and defend one’s

and that testosterone is addictive. Testosterone is therefore part of the system that links the

including a competitive advantage over others with respect to food and

000 acres of hemp in 1942 and set a target of 50