Sentence examples for pleasurable behavior from inspiring English sources

Any activity that activates those pathways reinforces the pleasurable behavior.

Watching porn mirrors a naturally occurring pleasurable behavior, something we're kind of supposed to be doing.

Running and slurping sugar previously were identified as pleasurable behaviors in animals.

During time-outs these students will likely engage in these pleasurable behaviors, which makes the time-out reinforcing rather than deterring.

"It reinforces the sadistic behavior via pleasurable experiences," Buckles concluded in her study.

The results have thus brought us a little closer to understanding the neural basis of one of the most important aspects of human conduct, namely goal directed behavior towards attaining pleasurable experiences.

It quotes one English teacher, still at the school, as calling Mr. Hawkins "stupid and arrogant" for complaining about "behavior that some find pleasurable".

The notion that underlies the "addiction" concept is that the substance use (or behavior) originally intended for pleasurable recreation is now compulsively driven.

In case of depression the therapist will stimulate behavioral change by helping patients to become more active by increasing mood independent potential pleasurable (reinforcing) activities in their lives (behavior activation) [ 19- 21].

No judgment of any kind is attached to this behavior; homoeroticism is just one pleasurable option among many.

This suggests, the authors wrote, that the insula is critical for behaviors whose bodily effects become pleasurable because they are learned, like cigarette smoking.