What is changing in the brain when something amazing happens to you for the first and you feel great. But the next time it happens you don’t get as excited as before and then after the 100th time it has no effect on your happiness?

Question

I know it’s the same as getting bored / loosing interest. But is it like a sort of dopamine resistance??

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Answer 1

The law of diminishing marginal utility explains that as a person consumes more of an item or product, the satisfaction (utility) they derive from the product wanes. Demand curves are downward sloping in microeconomic models since each additional unit of a good or service is put toward a less valuable use.
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