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How to slay Mondays Have sex the day before—it’s a<br />

great career move. In a survey of 159 married employees published in the Journal of<br />

Management,people reported feeling happier and more engaged with their jobs<br />

the entire day after having sex.“Dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with reward,<br />

and oxytocin, a hormone associated with love, are both active in your brain after sex,”<br />

says Keith Leavitt, Ph.D., the study’s lead author. “What our research showed is that you<br />

carry those mental benefits with you to work the next day.”<br />

. (That’s<br />

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