Dr. Kent Berridge

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We're Out of Time · Wanting vs Liking: Why Addiction Isn't About Pleasure | Dr. Kent Berridge · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

The government knew that people were starving around the world, and the question was, how could you help these people afterwards?

How could you take a starved person, bring them back to health?

To answer that question, they needed to have starved people.

So this is why the volunteers near Minneapolis were starving.

And if you see photos of these men, they look like concentration camp prisoners.

They're really starved down.

Now, they could go into Minneapolis sometimes on leave.

They couldn't eat, and they had a buddy system because the temptation to defect was so high with donut shops and things that you couldn't send them in by themselves, even though they're motivated to participate.

Even with the buddy system going into it at times, some of them would defect and have to be kicked out of the study.

Others who didn't defect, they were written up in a medical journal, and they would –

take the little food from the cafeteria that they had and they would save one little crumb and take it back to their barracks and sort of obsess over it, this little crumb of food.

They would read cookbooks with what the physician who wrote the study says was sort of like pornography interest with obsessive pornographic interest looking at this cookbook.

And some of them developed eating disorders later in life once they had recovered.

This is an intensity of temptation that any of us are capable of and all of those guys were put into.

And it's so strong that some of them defected.

Not all of them, right?

Some of them were able to resist.

But if all of us were put into this temptation and we were sent into Minneapolis to smell donut shops and hamburgers frying time after time, how many of us would succeed in, say, not defecting on 100 visits, over 100 visits, never defecting once?

Some of us would...

given to the temptation.

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