algedonic

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With no functioning algedonic feedback loops, evolutionary improvement can never occur.

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  1. In psychology and esthetics, relating to the affections of pleasantness and unpleasantness; pertaining to pleasure and pain. I shall venture occasionally to use the word algedonic as an adjective to cover the ground of pain and pleasure. Marshall, Pain, Pleasure and Æsthetics, p. 9.
  2. In psychology and esthetics, the doctrine of affection; the science of pleasure and pain. It would be well if English usage authorized the employment of the word algedonics to signify the science of pain and pleasure. Marshall, Pain, Pleasure and Æsthetics, p. 9.

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  • With no functioning algedonic feedback loops, evolutionary improvement can never occur. —  Army Rumour Service
  • And, going back to my earlier point about algedonic feedback loops, people who never receive negative feedback are unlikely ever to learn their jobs adequately. —  Army Rumour Service
  • - test in which an accused person plunges his hand into vat of boiling water algedonic adj. - pertaining to pain, especially in association with pleasure. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • It really isn't going to get any better until there is an algedonic feedback loop in place to reward success and punish failure. —  Army Rumour Service
 

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  1. New Latin *algedonicus < Greek ἂλγος, pain + ἡδονή, pleasure.
 

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