Gemma Speck

Welcome back to the show.

Welcome back to the podcast.

It is so great to have you here.

Back for another episode as we break down the psychology of our 20s.

Today, I'm back with another bonus episode.

I know two in, how long has it been?

Two in two weeks.

What is that all about?

But I thought, why not?

It's my podcast, and I want to talk about this topic because I think it is the perfect candidate for some debunking and some fact-checking, which you guys know we love to do on these smaller episodes.

Our bonus episodes, for those of you who may not know, are basically just bite-sized 20-minute eps where we break down a popular psychology term, psychology concept that is generally quite misunderstood.

but which, you know, we don't have all the time in the world to do a full episode on it, but I still feel like having the right information about it is important.

And today we have possibly our biggest concept yet in this mini series.

We are talking about the psychology of dopamine.

Yeah, dopamine.

If there was like a pop star, celebrity, royal figure amongst neurotransmitters or even like amongst psychology concepts, it would be dopamine.

I genuinely think I've had this discussion that if you asked somebody to name a psychology term or a psychology concept, like dopamine would be up there with one that a lot of people would

would probably say or would probably know alongside things like attachment style or like Pavlov's studies.

It's just dopamine is one of those terms that the moment you mention it, it gives you an air of legitimacy.

It gives whatever you're saying a sense of importance and that it's factual.