Sentences with word «hedonic»

That's helpful, because one of the twists one encounters as income increases is a reduction in pleasure when material goods are easier to come by: the so - called hedonic treadmill effect.

What about hedonic adaptation?

«The installation of Hedonic Reversal itself, while far from painful, is felicitously thorny and disorienting.»

«But what was similar amongst those shows was a core of hedonic thrills and aesthetically amazing acrobatics.

This connection is very clear in hedonic musical people — those who enjoy music — but diminishes in anhedonics.

A lesson suitable for GCSE or A-level as an introduction the Jeremy Bentham's Hedonic Calculus in moral decision making.

In this world, gratitude to the past and obligations to the future are replaced by a near - universal pursuit of immediate gratification: Culture, rather than imparting the wisdom and experience of the past toward the end of cultivating virtues of self - restraint and civility, instead becomes synonymous with hedonic titillation, visceral crudeness, and distraction, all oriented toward promoting a culture of consumption, appetite, and detachment.

The authors used hedonic regression pricing models to estimate values for individual home features, controlling for home characteristics and neighborhood factors.

The blockers can also reduce heroin, alcohol and cocaine use in human drug addicts, supporting the idea that common mechanisms regulate hedonic overeating and addictive drug use.

In psychology there's a term called hedonic adaptation.

In New Mexico, compensation for survivors in a wrongful death action often includes pain and suffering, lost earnings, loss of guidance, household services, loss of society and companionship, and the value of the decedent's life separate from his or her earning capacity (also known as hedonic damages).

The new hedonic model of marriage thrives when households have the time and resources to enjoy their lives.

WA house prices fell one per cent in July according to the latest RP Data - Riskmark Hedonic Home value index, continuing WA's weak performance compared to other states.

Women with less education, he explains, «likely have the least to gain from modern hedonic marriage» because they have the least capacity for consumption.

During the recent years there is a growing shift of emphasis from task — oriented and functional requirements to non-functional, experiential and hedonic aspects of interaction.

Our quest for hedonic fulfillment, or «keeping up with the Joneses,» is explained in the «Bling Treadmill» (what a perfect analogy!).

We did not assess hedonic responses to the meals or food cravings directly, and therefore, we could not explore the relation between these subjective values and brain activation.

Teacher Labor Markets and the Perils of Using Hedonics to Estimate Compensating Differentials in the Public Sector

I loved your website and had been studying it in depth, but when I learned more about hedonic adjustments and substitutions in the CPI, making the TIPS coupon rate meaningless and in reality a negative real rate of return, it stopped me dead in my tracks.

However, there was no link between partner responsiveness and hedonic well - being over time.

In a within - subject randomised design, participants tasted and rated liking (9 - point hedonic scale) and prospective consumption (9 - point category scale) of four different snack foods with four different labels (i.e. blank, fake, PACE, PACE doubled) and four control snack foods.

However, recent laboratory studies have shown that hedonic experience is actually intact in people with schizophrenia, calling for new approaches to better understand these motivational deficits.

For other sensory modalities, hedonic processing has been associated with pupil dilation.

Kahneman, working with others in the field of positive psychology, has helped to establish a new subfield, hedonic psychology, which measures not just pleasure but well - being in a broader sense, in order to establish a more objective account of our condition than our subjective reflection can afford us.

Valuing happiness was associated with lower hedonic balance, lower psychological well - being, less satisfaction with life, and higher depressive symptoms.

Still from Hedonic Reversal I (detail), 2014.

Perth house prices have continued their downward slide falling 1.8 per cent in October according to the latest RP Data - Rismark Hedonic Home Value Index.

That's known as «hedonic adaption» and it can make your kids extremely unappreciative of their blessings.

Over the month of May, Sydney house prices fell 1.3 per cent and Melbourne's prices dropped 1.7 per cent, according to Corelogic's latest Hedonic Home Value Index.

Borges's intertextuality is baffling to some, but a treat to hedonic readers and lovers of literariness.

But they seem to be sensitive to common dimensions of feeling, such as intensity and hedonic tone.

However a game unconstrained by simulating our preconceived power hierarchies and able to parse unusual combinations could allow for exploration of novel political states; some of which might conceivably be better than our existing society (as measured against a given dentological / consequentialist / aretaic / hedonic yardstick).

According to Dr. Harvey Anderson, principal investigator and a co-author of the study, the research showed that high - vitamin maternal diets affected hedonic pathways regulating food preference in the offspring.

However, it is unclear whether pupil dilation can be modulated by hedonic touch.

This type of touch activates low - threshold unmyelinated mechanoreceptors, known as C - tactile afferents, which have been proposed to play a unique role in hedonic valence and emotion of touch.

I am not force feeding myself until sick, or intentionally stocking up on food the whole week in anticipation of this one day, where I'll unleash hedonic rage and gorge myself to bursting and then pass out in a food coma.