Motivation and emotion/Book/2017/Naturalistic Euphoria

This is a pre-approved topic, but I have slightly altered the title - this did not however change the focus in any meaningful way.

Introduction
Context of being able to generate any emotion naturally...

Overview
What makes euphoria so special?

How can specific emotion, physiology and biofeedback theories and research help?

Euphoria
-E.g. cloud 9 / loss of self

Effects
-E.g. flow and peak experience

Explanations
-E.g. to generate deeper connection with activity

Conditional
-E.g. bipolar

Synthetic Induction
-E.g. stimulants

There is the perception, even in drug addicts themselves, that drug use leads to a feeling of euphoria - but recent reviews on acute emotional effects suggest that in fact, their sense of a high relates to only comparable levels of positive and negative affect to healthy controls, i.e. that they only come back to normal (Blum et al. 2013).

Side Effects
-E.g. lowered basal arousal

Contextual
-E.g. making the most of a moment

Manafactured
-E.g. controlling your perceptual constraints

Conclusion
What are the take home messages / strategies?