What Factors contribute to social and individual happiness?
This factor tends to make people feel safer and more at ease in a community.
What is trust?
Teenagers are extra sensitive to this neurotransmitter, leading to impulsive reward seeking behavior.
What is dopamine?
These chemicals are largely responsible for our emotions, and help neurons communicate.
What are neurotransmitters?
Doing this is shown to calm us down and improve our memory.
This factor is proven to calm people down, and is often seen as a key factor in determining quality of life for a given city or community.
What is nature or access to nature?
Due to this part of the teenage brain being not fully developed, teens have a hard time analyzing risk and thinking about consequences.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
As part of the limbic system, these chemicals help control bodily functions and development, and can take days to take effect.
What are Hormones?
This action relies on empathy, which can be seen in amygdala activation. Doing so releases dopamine.
What is altruism or altruistic behavior?
This factor helps people bond as a community and as individuals, and is important for people of all ages
What is Play?
This process of adolescent brain development helps increase the efficiency of teenage brains when it comes to transmitting information.
What is myelination or the growth of white matter?
This brain region is responsible for feelings of rage and fear, and signals to the limbic system to release adrenaline.
What is the amygdala?
This relies on oxytocin, and is correlated with people feeling good about their communities.
Trust
This behavior is unique to humans and is thought to be an evolutionary development intended to keep us looking out for each other.
What is altruism?
The relationship of the relative size and development of these two parts of the brain in teens make them relatively impulsive, reactive, and emotional.
What are the amygdala and prefrontal cortex?
These neurotransmitters help control:
1. motivation/reward
2. mood regulation and self perception
3. bonding with others
What are dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin?
Because it helps us bond with others and learn boundaries, this is thought to be an evolutionary advantage in mamals.
What is play, or the desire/drive to play?
Things like this bring joy to spaces that everyone can experience. That joy is due to enjoying something "novel" and aesthetically pleasing.
What is public art?
Teens are particularly susceptible to peer pressure because of what neurotransmitter?
What is oxytocin?
These neurotransmitters are released during play, which help us bond with others and reduce pain temporarily.
Oxytocin and endorphins.
These things mimic neurotransmitters like dopamine and endorphins, or release them in large amounts.
What are addictive drugs and/or behaviors?