 their bodies and minds were designed for seeking.
We see this happen to us when we are walking and go off the beaten path and discover a new lovely trail or when we playing a video game and we unlock a whole new world or when we go shopping and feel thrilled as we search for a super great deal.
Fun fact: Even as you are reading this and discovering more cool facts about dogs, your dopamine levels are likely triggered, giving you a rush of motivation in learning more and more!
What do social media platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram have to do with slot machines and drug addictions? They activate the dopamine seeking-reward loop, which is what makes you so dependent.
Don't think you're addicted to your phone? Raise your hand if you ever experienced a semi-panic attack that day you couldn't find it!
Sure, dogs don't have our manual dexterity to swipe, smash a "Like" button and subscribe, nor do they care about who's the latest star on TikTok, but they too can get caught into a cycle of motivation, reward, and reinforcement.
In a dog training example, every time your dog is rewarded for something, for example every time he is sitting nicely a bit of dopamine is released.
Further dopamine is released with the use of variable rewards where the trainer provides rewards sometimes yes and sometimes no. Giving a reward, following a behavior, in an intermittent fashion, causes a dog who was previously rewarded for every single behavior, to be always on his toes, working harder and guessing with great anticipation when the next treat will come next.
This is similar to what happens when us humans are playing the slot machines, where the right balance between positive and negative outcomes is necessary in order to keep you playing.
In these instances, dopamine levels go up through the roof. Why? Because nothing fuels dopamine release like the “maybe” of intermittent reinforcement, the uncertainty of “maybe yes, maybe no,” explains Sapolsky in his book: "Behave, The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst."
Every time your dog is rewarded for something, a bit of dopamine is released making your dog more motivated and eager to be trained.
Dopamine Affects The Human Side of Dog Training Too!
When you are training a dog, it is easy to get carried away. So much so that you may end up demolishing everything just because of the dopamine surge.
Picture this: one moment you are there training your dog, and the next, you get this big spike in dopamine as you're watching your dog succeed. 
This is when things start falling apart. You have become victim of what certified professional dog trainer Ayoka Bubar calls " ‘just-one-more-itis.' She shares a variety of methods to combat this trap in her blog.
Did you know? A recently discovered theory, known as the "baby schema effect" firstly proposed by ethologist Konrad Lorenz, found that a release of the chemicals dopamine and oxytocin is triggered in the human brain when humans look at babies or puppies due to their neoteny traits and similar chemicals are released when we fall in love.
S. Flagel et al., “A Selective Role for Dopamine in Stimulus-Reward Learning,” Nat 469 (2011): 53; K. Burke et al., “The Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in the Pursuit of Happiness and More Specific Rewards,” Nat 454 (2008): 340.
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Arriving in the Direct Market on Wednesday (8/1), Bloodshot Salvation Vol.2: The Book of the Dead is the collected edition of the second act of Bloodshot Salvation (issues #6-9) wherein Bloodshot enters the Deadside to try and cut a deal with demons (or worse) to save his daughter’s life.
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Quarrel had been with Bond on his last adventure in Jamaica. He was an invaluable handyman with all the fine seaman’s qualities of the Cayman Islander, and he was a passport into the lower strata of coloured life, which would otherwise be closed to Bond. Everybody loved him and he was a splendid companion. Bond knew that Quarrel was vital if he was to get anywhere on the Strangways case – whether it was a case or just a scandal. Then Bond had asked for a single room and shower at the Blue Hills Hotel, for the loan of a car and for Quarrel to meet him with the car at the airport. Most of this had been wrong. In particular Bond should have taken a taxi to his hotel and made contact with Quarrel later. Then he would have seen the car and had a chance to change it.
Quarrel had said that whenever he wanted to enjoy himself in Kingston he went to a waterfront nightspot called The Joy Boat.
Doctor No, Ian Flemings’ sixth book of the Bond series, demonstrates imperial assumptions, racial issues, and British settler culture, when analysed through a Post-colonial lens. On the third page of the book, Fleming (a wealthy British Caucasian from London) describes a group of Chinese Negroes (Chigroes), as bulky, beggars and “in this quiet rich unempty street, they made an unpleasant impression”. Fleming himself was writing during a period of Civil Rights Movements (1958), where ‘coloured people’ were still treated as inferior in many white cultures.
James Bond is a British spy in the exact interpretation of the white colonisers persona: he is refined, tasteful, and intelligent. Fleming’s writing style such as “Bond reflected” separates Bond from lower class, showing that he has a higher sense of class and properness. Since Bond is working on a case in the Caribbean (colonised by Europeans in the 16th century), Bond must seek assistance from a coloured man, Quarrel. While Bond is dependent on Quarrel, reversing the traditional binaries, Quarrel is still portrayed as of lower intelligence and style: Quarrel makes mistakes with the style of car.
Fleming has created