Pleasure feels good sometimes.

[nervous_neuron]

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So I was reading about pleasure. As per usual. This time, I was reading "The Feels Good Theory of Pleasure". I have already read this before, but I felt like reading it again. Anyway, it mentions the Paradox of Tragedy. People 'like' to go see tragic art but their experience was genuinely painful, even if they got some pleasure out of it. The

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[tester7555545]

Hey what do you think about this?
http://www.concordia.ca/now/media-relations/news-releases/20111209/oxytocin-helps-people-feel-more-extraverted.php
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22012170
I was reading it and then I thought that you might know more about this :)

[nervous_neuron]

They trialed it for social anxiety a while back. It worked on some symptoms but there was no overall improvement. I think the symptom was something to do with self perception like mentioned in that paper. Can't remember, was ages ago when I read it.