Cognitive strategies, such as recalling positive experiences, can help extend the positive phase of dopamine release.

“And you can actually do this cognitively. I used to joke with my lab that when we'd publish a paper I would get really excited, but I wouldn't allow myself to get too excited what I wanted to do instead and what I've still tried to do is try and extend the arc of that positive experience as long as I possibly can simply by thinking back like, Oh, that was really cool. I really enjoy doing that work. I really enjoyed the discovery. I really enjoy doing that with the people that I was working with at the time, what a pleasure that was.”