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New Study Helps Explain How People Become Obsessed With Forbidden Pleasures

June 7, 2013 by

The study, which appears in an upcoming edition of Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience journal, shows that when people are forbidden from something, it takes on a new level of focus. "Our findings show that when individuals are forbidden from everyday objects, our minds and brains pay more attention to them," says lead author Grace Truong, a graduate student in UBC's Dept...

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