Sentences with phrase «showed less reward»

The study's results suggested that girls whose brains showed less reward system activation to foods also gained more weight — if they had the DRD2 Taq1AQ1 or the DRD4 7 + repeat alleles.

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Interestingly, two weeks later, when tests were given to measure the ongoing interest in the original play activity, those children who had expected a reward showed significantly less interest in the activity.

The potential rewards of promotion to the Premier League are massive but Millwall, who were playing League One football this time last year, are under less pressure than the clubs around them and it shows in their performances.

Nucleus accumbens Famous for its role in reward, pleasure and addiction, this area showed less ability to change in a study of rats with symptoms of postpartum depression.

Recent studies have shown that endorphin blockers do lessen the activation of reward circuits in humans and rodents that are presented with appetizing food — the subjects eat less.

People with one version of the gene have been shown in previous research to be less able to learn from rewards, while people with other versions were less driven by reward in learning.

Over the following year, those whose brains showed less activation in areas known to respond to natural rewards like foods ended up gaining more weight — though only if they had a particular genetic makeup.

In their research in mice, described in the journal Nature online Oct. 21, the investigators showed that TRN neurons, which have been previously implicated in the dampening of brain signals in people, were also less active when the mice were led to focus on — and respond to — a visual flash of light to get a milk reward.

Noteworthy was that adolescents who had already begun using substances showed less striatal response to monetary reward.

Research shows a difference in DNA could mean some people are less sensitive to the taste of sugar, so they chase sweeter and sweeter foods to get the reward — foods the average person would find way too sweet.

Some have questioned whether the competition's rules are a barrier for rural districts with less capacity to participate, but a look at the full list of districts (PDF) that intend to apply shows that more than 430 small districts have thrown their hat in the ring for the smallest $ 5 — 10 million rewards.

Most relevant to character education is a series of studies showing that individuals who have been rewarded for doing something nice become less likely to think of themselves as caring or helpful people and more likely to attribute their behavior to the reward.

MG: Do you have any studies that show that dividend payers as a group outperform a broad index with less volatility, which seems to me is saying you can get more reward without taking on more risk?

And you'll likely earn even less than the chart shows: Some ARCO card purchases don't earn rewards.

Those who had viewed the food images were almost 20 % more likely to opt for less money sooner (61 % versus 41.5 %), showing an interest in more immediate rewards.

Dogs trained using positive reinforcement and reward - based techniques show less stress, less aggression, and are actually more receptive to training.

Let's look at how to reward our best brand advocates and show them the love they deserve and consider a strategy for dealing with less - than - stellar reviews.

In what has been dubbed the Positive - Negative Asymmetry Phenomenon, researchers have shown that punishing the out - group benefits self - esteem less than rewarding the in - group.

Studies using gambling tasks, for example, show that adolescents are highly motivated by potential rewards and are relatively less attentive to possible costs.

Individuals who were better able to delay as a child showed greater PFC activity in adolescence and adulthood when presented with a rewarding, tempting stimulus, whereas those who struggled with the delay task in childhood showed greater activity in the ventral striatum and less effective PFC recruitment when in the face of positive reward cues [25, 37 • •].

We also hypothesized that CU traits would show a pattern of «inverted» social reward, in which adolescents with high levels of these traits report more enjoyment of negative social potency and less enjoyment of prosocial interactions, in line with our previous findings from adults with high levels of psychopathic traits [12,13].