{"id":340,"date":"2008-05-23T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/340"},"modified":"2008-05-23T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:43:11","slug":"i-feeeel-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/340","title":{"rendered":"I Feeeel Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=the-healthy-type\">I knew that I would<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he placebo theory of suffering is one window through which to view blogging. As social creatures, humans have a range of pain-related behaviors, such as complaining, which acts as a \u201cplacebo for getting satisfied,\u201d Flaherty says. Blogging about stressful experiences might work similarly.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nLocated mainly in the midbrain, the limbic system controls our drives, whether they are related to food, sex, appetite, or problem solving. \u201cYou know that drives are involved [in blogging] because a lot of people do it compulsively,\u201d Flaherty notes. Also, blogging might trigger dopamine release, similar to stimulants like music, running and looking at art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm.  Blogging = bitching = placebo<\/p>\n<p>And what of those who blog while listening to music, looking at art and running, <em>all at the same time<\/em>?  Bring on that dopamine!<\/p>\n<p>Heh.  So much for blogging <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/172\">being bad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolutionblog\/2008\/05\/blogging_is_good_for_you.php\">EvolutionBlog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that I would. [T]he placebo theory of suffering is one window through which to view blogging. As social creatures, humans have a range of pain-related behaviors, such as complaining, which acts as a \u201cplacebo for getting satisfied,\u201d Flaherty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/340\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-science-y-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}