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• “To find out, he and his colleagues asked a group of 65 undergraduates to complete an online survey each day for three weeks that assessed how times they participated in hedonic, or pleasure-seeking behaviours, versus meaningful activities, such as helping others, listening to friends’ problems and/or pursuing one’s life goals.”

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• “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 Guardian: The Saturday interview: Toby Ord and Bernadette Young on the joy of giving

• “The pleasure that comes with, say, a good meal, an entertaining movie or an important win for one's sports team—a feeling called "hedonic well-being"—tends to be short-term and fleeting.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Is Happiness Overrated?

• “For psychologists and behavioral economists, vacations are a window into the still only dimly understood mystery of human pleasure, a field known as hedonic psychology.”

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• “That's good, because fat activates the brain's natural mu-opioid receptors, provoking what scientists call a hedonic response.”

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• “However, some countries, such as the US, also take into account changes in the quality of goods in a process known as hedonic price adjustment.”

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• “This desperate, presumably futile struggle for continued improvement is called the hedonic treadmill.”

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• “A second caveat is procedure called hedonic or felicific that the terms physical or mental should not calculus, for determining how much be taken too literally: physical pain or pleasure and pain would result from any suffering, as a matter of fact, happens action.”

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• “The CPI also ignores the direct cost of property taxes -- sure to go up as states and cities bail out underfunded pension plans -- and subtracts the "hedonic" effects of regulations that increase quality of life, such as the added expense of pollution-reducing gasoline additives.”

  Forbes: Where Inflation Lurks

• “This Power-of-Food Scale helps gauge how vulnerable you are to 'hedonic' eating.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Eating to Live or Living to Eat?

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