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The Nature of Pleasure in Pleasure Travel

Tourism Recreation Research, 2009
It is indeed ironic that despite the importance of pleasure as a central theme in both the practice and theory of travel, there is a cntical absence of knowledge from which to theoretically and conceptually situate this concept in our field. Given this current state, the purpose of this paper is to undertake a general survey of literature on pleasure,
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The pleasures of advising

Technology in Society, 1980
On the day following John F. Kennedy’s assassination I encountered Jerome Wiesner in the Executive Of&es where we both worked, he as Science Adviser to the President and I as an Assistant Director of the Budget Bureau. We stood and talked for a couple of minutes, unable to shake off the trauma that had descended on the whole White House staff. “1’11 be
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From struggle for pleasure to pleasure in struggling: psychoanalytic ideas on pleasure

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Pleasure in the human being has always been a major theme, associated with pain, excess and needs, determining many moral dilemmas, including the ethics of medical, social, and educational intervention. The rhythmic movement between the multiple pleasurable experiences, the effort to retain them or avoid different pains present themselves in the mental
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Sensory Pleasure

The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1979
In response to a stimulus, a sensation is tridimensional: qualitative, quantitative, and affective. The affective part of sensation, pleasure or displeasure, depends on the qualities of the stimulus. Within a narrow range of intensity, chemical, thermal, and mechanical stimuli are able to arouse pleasure.
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The Pleasure to End All Pleasures

2019
This chapter looks into the legacy of Fritz Lang's M . It examines how Lang's portrayal of a serial killer as protagonist went on to influence subsequent horror films and serial killer thrillers.
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Healthy Pleasures, Lethal Pleasures

Psychiatric Annals, 2003
Alcohol and cocaine can have toxic effects on our biological systems, but food we sustain ourselves with?
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The nature of pleasure.

2004
(from the chapter) Critiques 2 core theses of appraisal theory: (1) appraisal is responsible for the elicitation of emotions, and (2) appraisal is responsible for the differentiation of emotions. The authors argue, first, that much research purporting to provide support for appraisal theory fails to do so by not clearly separating the antecedent ...
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An Element of Pleasure

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978
Medicinal uses of zinc, which began centuries ago with the fumbling empiricism of local therapy for wounds and various skin lesions, is now entering an era of oral and parenteral therapy based on indications of specific deficiency in need of replenishment.
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The pleasure principle

IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2004
The list of "concepts that psychology really can't do without" includes such notions as neuronal connectionism, degrees of consciousness, mental representation of information, and dissociation. Of the pantheon of contributors to the history of psychology, Aristotle outranks all others in terms of the number of critical concepts he introduced, including
Robert R. Hoffman, Patrick J. Hayes
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Preferring for pleasure

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1985
Recent review articles have confirmed that pleasure is a potent drive inducing forms of behavior adapted to physiological needs, especially in the case of temperature regulation and food-and-water intake. This point is accepted in the present article.
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