Pleasure: the common currency

Cabanac, Michel

doi:10.1016/s0022-5193(05)80594-6

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“…Since pleasure must ultimately serve a central role in fulfilling Darwinian imperatives of survival and procreation, the sensory pleasures linked to food intake as well as sex are likely to be fundamentally basic (Cabanac 1992(Cabanac , 2008Darwin 1872;Kringelbach 2008;Nesse 2002;Panksepp 1998;Rolls 2005;Schulkin 2004).…”

Section: Multiple Psychological Components Of Rewardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

2008

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Introduction Pleasure and reward are generated by brain circuits that are largely shared between humans and other animals. Discussion Here, we survey some fundamental topics regarding pleasure mechanisms and explicitly compare humans and animals. Conclusion Topics surveyed include liking, wanting, and learning components of reward; brain coding versus brain causing of reward; subjective pleasure versus objective hedonic reactions; roles of orbitofrontal cortex and related cortex regions; subcortical hedonic hotspots for pleasure generation; reappraisals of dopamine and pleasure-electrode controversies; and the relation of pleasure to happiness.

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Section: Multiple Psychological Components Of Rewardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

2008

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“…This idea is related to an idea from Cabanac [22]: "the maximization of pleasure, and the minimization of displeasure, not only leads to useful behavior, but is also the answer to motivation conflicts". The idea is experimentally supported in psychological research [23].…”

Section: Higher Comfort In Transient Environments and With Personal Cmentioning

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Thermal sensation and comfort models for non-uniform and transient environments, part III: Whole-body sensation and comfort

Zhang

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Huizenga

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A three-part series presents the development of models for predicting the local thermal sensation (Part I) and local thermal comfort (Part II) of different parts of the human body, and also the whole-body sensation and comfort (Part III) that result from combinations of local sensation and comfort. The models apply to sedentary activities in a range of environments: uniform and non-uniform, stable and transient. They are based on diverse findings from the literature and from body-part-specific human subject tests in a climate chamber. They were validated against a test of automobile passengers. The series is intended to present the models' rationale, structure, and coefficients, so that others can test them and develop them further as additional empirical data becomes available.A) The whole-body (overall) sensation model has two forms, depending on whether all of the body's segments have sensations effectively in the same direction (e.g warm or cool), or whether some segments have sensations opposite to those of the rest of the body. For each, individual body parts have different weights for warm versus cool sensations, and strong local sensations dominate the overall sensation. If all sensations are near neutral, the overall sensation is close to the average of all body sensations.B) The overall comfort model also has two forms. Under stable conditions, people evaluate their overall comfort by a complaint-driven process, meaning that when two body parts are strongly uncomfortable, no matter how comfortable the other body parts might be, the overall comfort will be near the discomfort level of the two most uncomfortable parts. When the environmental conditions are transient, or people have control over their environments, overall comfort is better than that of the two most uncomfortable body parts. This can be accounted for by adding the most comfortable vote to the two most uncomfortable ones.

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“…Two explanations exist as to why humans are inclined nevertheless to engage in challenges. Firstly, such engagement is driven by pleasurable emotions such as interest and curiosity (Silvia, 2005;Tan, 2008;White, 1959), which may counterbalance simultaneous negative experiences (Cabanac, 1992). Secondly, people are frequently willing to forego pleasure for the sake of long-term goals (Blascovich, 2008;Tarnir, 2009).…”

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Media Entertainment as a Result of Recreation and Psychological Growth

Hartmann¹

2012

The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

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Media entertainment refers to users' enjoyment of media-induced sensations. This chapter argues that users feel entertained to the extent that media supports their adaptive tendencies to recreate and grow psychologicallY. Within the boundaries of their physiological regulation, users are believed to engage actively in cognitive, affective, and behavioral challenges imposed by media, in order to grow psychologically. However, a lack of physiological resources may limit users' engagement in challenges and consequently strengthen their enjoyment of more recreational and supportive media content.

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Pleasure: the common currency

Cited by 463 publications

References 57 publications

Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

Thermal sensation and comfort models for non-uniform and transient environments, part III: Whole-body sensation and comfort

Media Entertainment as a Result of Recreation and Psychological Growth

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