Experimental Support of the Hedonistic Model of Desire

Ovsich, Alexander J.; Cabanac, Michel

doi:10.5539/ijps.v4n1p66

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“…It must be underlined that the observed performance improvement, and therefore the usefulness of music, was present only with agreeable music and that unpleasant music tended to produce results that were often no different from controls. Such a result thus give a new evidence of the role of pleasurable experience in decision making (Cabanac & Bonniot-Cabanac, 2011;Ovsich & Cabanac, 2012;Ramírez et al, 2009;Cabanac & Bonniot-Cabanac, 2007;Ramírez, Bonniot-Cabanac, & Cabanac, 2005;Cabanac et al, 2002).…”

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Mozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music

Perlovsky

Cabanac

Bonniot-Cabanac

et al. 2013

Behavioural Brain Research

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We explore a possibility that the 'Mozart effect' points to a fundamental cognitive function of music. Would such an effect of music be due to the hedonicity, a fundamental dimension of mental experience? The present paper explores a recent hypothesis that music helps to tolerate cognitive dissonances and thus enabled accumulation of knowledge and human cultural evolution. We studied whether the influence of music is related to its hedonicity and whether pleasant or unpleasant music would influence scholarly test performance and cognitive dissonance. Specific hypotheses evaluated in this study are that during a test students experience contradictory cognitions that cause cognitive dissonances. If some music helps to tolerate cognitive dissonances, then first, this music should increase the duration during which participants can tolerate stressful conditions while evaluating test choices. Second, this should result in improved performance. These hypotheses are tentatively confirmed in the reported experiments as the agreeable music was correlated with longer duration of tests under stressful conditions and better performance above that under indifferent or unpleasant music. It follows that music likely performs a fundamental cognitive function explaining the origin and evolution of musical ability that have been considered a mystery.

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Mozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music

Perlovsky

Cabanac

Bonniot-Cabanac

et al. 2013

Behavioural Brain Research

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Mathematical Models of Desire, Need, Attention, and Will Effort

Ovsich

2017

Advanced Research on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures

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According to Spinoza, “Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause”. Author proposes that desire is nothing else but a change of pleasure accompanied by the idea of its cause, that terms ‘desire', ‘want' and their cognates describe change of the pleasantness of the state of a subject (PSS in short) associated with X, that if change of PSS is positive/negative, then X is called desirable/undesirable correspondingly. Both positive and negative desires can be strong, so strength of desire characterizes its magnitude. Need of X is defined here as a cyclical desire of X that gets stronger/weaker with dissatisfaction/satisfaction of its need. Author also explores an idea that the stronger is desire of X by a subject, the more attention this subject pays to X. Distribution of attention and influence on it by the will effort are analyzed in this paper.

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Experimental Support of the Hedonistic Model of Desire

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Mozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music

Mozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music

Mathematical Models of Desire, Need, Attention, and Will Effort

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