It doesn't require gambling on what will trigger pleasure in the future or recalling what did in the past.
"What makes a Latina... is the passion for her culture... the love of all things that trigger pleasure... a love of all things that satisfy the physical and emotional essence of a person... food, poems, history, romance, people, or music, all is looked at with heightened sensitivity and appreciation.
They are 'horrifically compelling.' In other words, in our contemplative security from the real, the images trigger pleasure--call it engrossed compulsion, the kind of spiritual pleasure attendant upon loss of self, as we are absorbed by the transfixing object of our attention.
Understanding what triggers pleasure in your audience's brain will increase engagement, click-through rates and sales.
These details could suggest that art biologically triggers pleasure, pain, expectations, pain, or other emotions.
The more we eat these types of foods, the more we crave them to trigger these pleasure centers.
Shadowing the same receptor pathways of other ingested addictive chemicals, including cocaine and opiates, high fructose corn syrup alters the transmission of certain brain chemicals, including endorphins, dopamine and serotonin, which, in turn, trigger the pleasure center of our brains, leaving us wanting more.
"While the idea of utilizing psychological findings towards marketing and media of all kinds is of course nothing new, the level of penetration with which neuromarketing attempts to parse the human brain and trigger its pleasure centers mark an important new direction in this type of persuasion politics," Malick explains to The Creators Project.
Something about Mr. Turrell's art, even when it consists just of sitting in a room, switches on a kind of internal light, triggering intangible pleasure.
And so it is with all the diverse triggers of pleasure and memory in each encounter with the world's oldest national park: the smell of the first drops of a summer thunderstorm on a dusty footpath, the ratchet of grasshoppers, the wind sighing in pines, and the waves breaking on the beaches of Yellowstone Lake.
They discovered that dying in a game – as long as it's the player's own fault and isn't too costly – actually triggers a pleasure response in the brain, because it re-affirms your agency in the world (you can read a bit more about it here).
