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=Science Summary=

This article is about a study on cocaine users and how users are less likely to socially interact because it becomes less pleasurable for them. Regular cocaine users have difficulty in feeling empathy for others and they exhibit less prosocial behavior (Science Daily). The study also shows how cocaine users find it less enjoyable to interact in social behavior. The textbook explains how when cocaine is used frequently the user's reward system fails making the only pleasurable experience using the drug (Boyd,125). Users also show less emotional empathy and find it more difficult to recognize emotions by voices (Science Daily). The explanation used in the textbook explains the data presented in the study shown in this article because if an individual gained no pleasure when they socially interact with somebody then there is nothing to gain in that action so it becomes less likely to occur. The fact that frequent cocaine users become less socially interactive is the primary reason why cocaine users are known to live an isolated life because if you gained no pleasure from an action than why would you indulge in such an activity?

University of Zurich. "Cocaine users enjoy social interactions less." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 January 2014. .

Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. // Mastering the World of Psychology //. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.

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