Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D.

Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D.

Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D., is a Docent at the Oakland Zoo, where she leads tours on mammalian social behavior. She’s Professor Emerita of International Management at California State University, East Bay. She worked in Africa as a United Nations Volunteer and began studying the mammalian social brain after lecturing worldwide on bribery prevention. She's the author of Meet Your Happy Chemicals; I, Mammal: Why Your Brain Links Status and Happiness; and Greaseless: How to Thrive without Bribes in Developing Countries. Her websites are full of good information on these subjects.

 

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Your Neurochemical Self

You have the same brain chemicals as other mammals. Happy chemicals reward animals for doing what it takes to keep their genes alive. Unhappy chemicals warn of immediate threats to an animal's survival prospects. Your neurochemical ups and downs make sense when you know the job they evolved for in nature. It's not easy being a mammal with a big cortex.

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