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Make love, not war: Both serve to defuse stress-induced arousal through the dopaminergic pleasure network

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2006

Mary F. Dallman*
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, CA94143-0444

Abstract:

Nell restricts cruelty to hominids, although good evidence suggests that secondary aggression in rodents and particularly primates may be considered cruel. A considerable literature shows that glucocorticoid secretion stimulated by stress facilitates learning, memory, arousal, and aggressive behavior. Either secondary aggression (to a conspecific) or increased affiliative behavior reduces stressor-induced activity, suggesting the reward system can be satisfied by other behaviors than cruelty.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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