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A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain
Pleasure is a fundamental driver of human behaviour, yet its neural basis remains largely unknown. Rodent studies highlight opioidergic neural...
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Identity Theory and Pleasure: Understanding Sexual Selves Through a Pleasure–Identity Lens
Sociologists, especially those in identity theory, recognize that the meanings associated with sexual identities are socially and culturally...
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Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity
BackgroundGender differences have been found to be associated with individuals’ pleasure. Cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity might play...
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Schiller and His Philosophical Context: Pleasure, Form, and Freedom
Schiller’s interests in theology, poetry, and literature influenced the way he responded to the ethics and aesthetics of the British philosopher the...
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EEG Analysis of Pediatric Pleasure and Unpleasure Emotions
The neurocognitive processing of emotions evoked by visual stimuli (based on affective images) could involve internal structures of the brain....
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Beyond Gendered/Sexed Sexual Response: Debunking Essentialism, Revisiting Experience, and Centering Women’s Sexual Pleasure
The experience of sexual pleasure is foundational to sexual arousal and desire. Despite a universal potential for experiencing sexual pleasure, sex...
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Pleasure and Displeasure Identification from fNIRS Signals
This paper presents two feature extraction methods for training different classification models for the detection of pleasure and displeasure defined...
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Assessment of Food Odor-Evoked Emotions Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Food sensory cues are prominent sources of emotions. The advancement of functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) allows to noninvasively examine...
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Central Representation of Cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials
Sensitivity of vestibular system to sounds (SVSS) can be measureable by cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs). The aim of this...
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The effect of self-congruity on tourists’ emotions and sharing cultural tourism experiences on social networking platforms: a case study of Lingnan Impression Park
This study attempts to investigate how self-congruity motivates tourists’ intention to share their cultural destination travel experiences on social...
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Linking the Neural Correlates of Reward and Pleasure to Aesthetic Evaluations of Beauty
In this chapter, we explore the neural bases of pleasure and beauty and suggest that neuroaesthetics research may serve as a tool to deepen our...
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Are You Distracted by Pleasure? Practice Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness improves attentional control and regulates emotion. In the current study, two experiments were conducted to examine the role of sustained...
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Identification of Aspects, Emotions and Pleasure in the Design Process: A Survey with Portuguese Product Designers
Although it has many definitions, design is related to shape things, the configuration of something. As a language, it uses signs and symbols to...
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Music for Pleasure
Music has always been recognized as a fundamental art, capable of putting in communication and in relation mind, spirit, and emotions. For ancient...
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How Does It Feel? Odor-Evoked Emotion Among Chinese People
Chinese culture has the potential to influence Chinese people’s odor preference and odor-evoked emotion. However, previous studies have rarely...
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Castration for Pleasure: Exploring Extreme Castration Ideations in Fiction
The Eunuch Archive (EA) is an online community which includes individuals who read and write sexual fantasies with themes related to castration and...
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Motivations underlying self-infliction of pain during thinking for pleasure
Previous research suggested that people prefer to administer unpleasant electric shocks to themselves rather than being left alone with their...
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The effects of music combined to paired associative stimulation on motor-evoked potentials and alertness in spinal cord injury patients and healthy subjects
Paired associative stimulation (PAS) consisting of high-intensity transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and high-frequency peripheral nerve...
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Different theta connectivity patterns underlie pleasantness evoked by familiar and unfamiliar music
Music-evoked pleasantness has been extensively reported to be modulated by familiarity. Nevertheless, while the brain temporal dynamics underlying...
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Auto-repugnancy: In-between Freud’s “Pleasure Principle”
A number of philosophers have put pressure on the seeming binarism of the life and death drives in Beyond the Pleasure Principle . Continuing this...