hedonic

How To Use hedonic In A Sentence

• Other psychologists have proposed theories to account for the changes in behavior that take place when hedonic events follow the behavior.
• Today we dive in to the genetics of chocolate plants, and the hedonics -- the tasting experience -- of the finished product, where science meets sensuality meets sugar. Boing Boing
• It is an index of how people respond to a questionnaire about how they feel about themselves: either about their mood ( "hedonic happiness") or about how well they are facing life's challenges ( "eudemonic happiness"). Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
• Smoking cessation is one of the most common risk factors for weight gain and there is little doubt that in some people food activates exactly the same hedonic pathways as does nicotine and other drugs - this is why for some people, food is very much an addiction. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Food Cravings, Mood, and Nicotine Addiction
• Watch as she concentrates every sense on her hedonic moment. Times, Sunday Times
• Broadly speaking, on-line shopping experiences can be categorized into two distinct dimensions: utilitarian and hedonic value.
• My default classification for anyone who says that seriously is that they fall somewhere along the spectrum of "lacking imagination / internal resources" to "anhedonic". Making Light: Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada
• While Barton claims the stories make for "rather anhedonic reading," I found them on the contrary to be even rather moving on the whole, in addition to being structurally and stylistically challenging (the latter description being meant as a compliment.) Book Reviewing
• As John Crudele keeps pointing out in the New York Post, the job-count books at the Labor Department-which came out later in the week-are completely cooked, and Grant's Interest Rate Observer has anatomized the utter phoniness of the Commerce Department's "anhedonic" productivity figures. Why Does Paul O'Neill Keep His Alcoa Options?
• Ord refers to the "hedonic treadmill" whereby people expend more and more resources to maintain the same level of satisfaction, and to evidence that people get more happiness from spending money on other people than buying things for themselves. The Saturday interview: Toby Ord and Bernadette Young on the joy of giving