415. The psychology of dopamine
episodePreviously titled “415. The secret history & psychology of dopamine...” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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Hello, everybody. I'm Gemma Speck, and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments, and transitions of our 20s, and what they mean for our psychology. Hello, everybody. 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.
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