Pleasure in decision-making situations

Cabanac, Michel; Guillaume, Jacqueline; Balaskó, Márta; Fleury, Adriana

doi:10.1186/1471-244x-2-7

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“…The idea is experimentally supported in psychological research [23]. If the most extreme feelings on both sides are important in making a decision, perhaps both the worst and the best comfortable feelings combine in judging overall comfort.…”

Section: Higher Comfort In Transient Environments and With Personal Cmentioning

confidence: 79%

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

Zhang

Arens

Huizenga

et al. 2010

Building and Environment

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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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Section: Higher Comfort In Transient Environments and With Personal Cmentioning

confidence: 79%

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

Zhang

Arens

Huizenga

et al. 2010

Building and Environment

404

164

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“…Further works will have to address this question specifically. The importance of emotion in decision making process has been acknowledged (Cabanac, 1992(Cabanac, , 2002 and the importance of pleasure as the fifth influence of the universe has been proposed (Cabanac, Guillaume, Balaskó, & Fleury, 2002; Hammel, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Arts and Scholastic Performance

Cabanac¹

2017

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Pleasant environmental music during an academic test helped students to overcome stress. As a result the grades they obtained were higher. It was also demonstrated that students selecting music as optional course performed better, than music-less control students over three consecutive years. Yet, there remained ambiguities as for the causes of the higher test performance of these students. Our study confirmed a Mozart effect, and further showed a latency of two to three years for such a positive influence to take place, suggesting that it is the practice of music itself that helps cognition. We showed also that other art courses, when freely chosen, have similar positive influences on students' performances, illustrating that the principles of learning are linked to hedonism and to will effort in a more general manner.

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“…Besides that, the uncertainty pointed out by Ajzen seems to be largely -and probably totally-removed when the hedonic dimension of consciousness is taken into account (Cabanac, 1971(Cabanac, , 1992 see also (Cabanac, Guillaume, Balasko, & Fleury, 2002;Cabanac, Pouliot, & Everett, 1997).…”

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The Pleasure of Being Aggressive in Male Incarcerated Criminals

Ramírez¹,

Millana²,

Toldos-Romero³

et al. 2009

TOCRIJ

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Maximization of pleasure (hedonicity) is a major mechanism in human decision-making by optimizing behavior, as previous research has shown on both sensory pleasure and purely mental pleasure (such as playing videogames or solving mathematical problems). Our group also documented that pleasure is a major factor in decision-making in social situations related to interpersonal aggression: people tend to make aggressive behavioral decisions as a function of the resulting pleasure. The present study tried to verify whether this trend was also found in inmates. To our knowledge, this is the first investigation on the relationship between pleasure and aggression performed in a prison. Fifty three male inmates in a Spanish prison condemned for severe legal transgressions and serving long detention were compared with seventy five male university students who served as controls. They responded to self-reported questionnaires devised to examine how hedonicity influences decision-making in the case of aggressiveness. Socially conflictive situations were described, with four alternative options ranging from passive to highly aggressive response. A similar bell-shaped trend was present in both populations -aggressive behaviors of medium intensity were rated as significantly less unpleasant than the most passive and most aggressive behaviors-, even though the degree of hedonicity was significantly higher in the inmates, who rated mild and moderate aggressive responses as pleasurable. Inmates also voted for an unexpected lower of aggressiveness than controls, which may be explained by social desirability. Conclusion: the sametrend is found in both populations: mild aggressive behavior may be pleasurable to the aggressor, but only up to a certain level. But this seems to be stronger in inmates: they showed hedonicity when experiencing higher level of aggression. Such a result is consistent with a fundamental role of hedonicity in decision making.

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Pleasure in decision-making situations

Cited by 31 publications

References 54 publications

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

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

Arts and Scholastic Performance

The Pleasure of Being Aggressive in Male Incarcerated Criminals

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