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Value, Reason and Hedonism

Utilitas, 2008
It is widely believed that we always have reason to maximize the good. Utilitarianism and other consequentialist theories depend on this ‘teleological’ conception of value. Scanlon has argued that this view of value is not generally correct, but that it is most plausible with regard to the value of pleasure, and may even be true at least of that.
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Values, Hedonism, Autonomy?

Transactional Analysis Bulletin, 1979
Using Erik Erikson and James Marcia's scientific work on the identity crisis of adolescence and a children's story by Madeleine L'Engle, the process of maturation is described. The desirability of youthful hedonism and the need to relinquish it in a way that promotes stability of the life plan and joy and satisfaction in living are elaborated ...
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Alienation and hedonic values in mass tourism

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
This study aims to reveal (1) the alienation of tourists, (2) whether locals experience alienation or not, and (3) the kind of relationship between alienation, hedonic consumption and hedonic wellbeing. The study employed a qualitative research method on two samples of locals and domestic tourists. Study findings demonstrate that locals' deprivation of
Süheyla Golcheshmeh, Metin Kozak
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Relative hedonic value modulates anticipatory contrast

Physiology & Behavior, 1994
Intake of an initial substance (e.g., 0.15% saccharin) is suppressed when the presentation of this substance precedes the availability of a preferred solution (e.g., 32% sucrose) in brief daily pairings. The present experiments show that degree of this anticipatory contrast effect is related to the relative hedonic value of the substances paired each ...
C F, Flaherty, J, Turovsky, K L, Krauss
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The Value of Inherent Soil Characteristics: A Hedonic Analysis

2009
In an attempt to value soil natural capital, we use the inherent characteristics of soil and land valuation data to examine the relationship between soil characteristics and rural farmland values in the 6000ks2 Manawatu catchment in New Zealand. The study applies a hedonic pricing method to determine if the value of ‘critical’ inherent characteristics ...
Samarasinghe, Oshadhi, Greenhalgh, Suzie
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Informed consent, the value of trust, and hedons

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013
Sissela Bok's1 and Torbjorn Tannsjo's2 writings on trust and informed consent were sources of inspiration for my article.3 It is gratifying to have a chance to respond to their thoughtful comments. Bok concurs with my scepticism that the ‘trust-promotion argument for informed consent’ can successfully generate commonsense morality's full set of ...
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LEARNING IN A HEDONIC FRAMEWORK: VALUING BROWNFIELD REMEDIATION

International Economic Review, 2019
AbstractIncomplete information in property value hedonic models can bias estimates of marginal willingness to pay (MWTP). Using brownfield remediation as an application, this article recovers hedonic values from a dynamic neighborhood choice framework that allows households to learn about brownfield contamination in a Bayesian fashion before choosing ...
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A Discussion on Indian Consumers' Hedonic and Non-Hedonic Values

2016
The present study aims at attaining a better understanding of the hedonic consumer value of materialism and non-hedonic values of happiness, life-satisfaction and religiosity. As a conceptual paper, the study refers to literature and prior empirical research with the objective of linking a significant body of literature on these apparently diverse ...
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Hedonic and utilitarian values of mobile internet in Korea

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2006
This study investigated the hedonic and utilitarian values of the mobile internet and their relationships to the importance of attributes of and usage behaviours of mobile internet service. Using data from 487 respondents to a survey, ANOVA and correlation analysis were performed.
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Effort after meaning and the hedonic value of paintings

British Journal of Psychology, 2003
Two experiments tested the prediction that providing the viewer with information about abstract and semi‐abstract paintings, in the form of titles and descriptions, would increase the paintings' perceived meaningfulness and hedonic value. The meaningfulness prediction was supported in both experiments.
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