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Neuroscience Letters May 2022Human perception is inherently multisensory, with cross-modal integration playing a critical role in generating a coherent perceptual experience. To understand the...
Human perception is inherently multisensory, with cross-modal integration playing a critical role in generating a coherent perceptual experience. To understand the causes of pleasurable experiences, we must understand whether and how the relationship between separate sensory modalities influences our experience of pleasure. We investigated the effect of congruency between vision and audition in the form of temporal alignment between the cuts in a video and the beats in an accompanying soundtrack. Despite the subliminal nature of this manipulation, a higher perceptual pleasure was found for temporal congruency compared with incongruency. These results suggest that the temporal aspect of the interaction between the visual and auditory modalities plays a critical role in shaping our perceptual pleasure, even when such interaction is not accessible to conscious awareness.
Topics: Acoustic Stimulation; Auditory Perception; Humans; Music; Photic Stimulation; Pleasure; Visual Perception
PubMed: 35398533
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2022.136623 -
The Journal of Nervous and Mental... 1957
Topics: Emotions; Humans; Pleasure
PubMed: 13481742
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-195707000-00007 -
Pain Apr 2014
Topics: Female; Food; Humans; Low Back Pain; Male; Pleasure; Satiation; Taste
PubMed: 24418458
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2014.01.001 -
International Journal of Environmental... Jan 2022Although hedonic tourism happiness and eudaimonic tourism happiness coexist in tourism experiences, extant research has primarily approached them and their impact on...
Although hedonic tourism happiness and eudaimonic tourism happiness coexist in tourism experiences, extant research has primarily approached them and their impact on tourists' life satisfaction separately. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the impact on life satisfaction of the two types of happiness tourists experience in various activities they encounter in tourist venues and their asymmetric effects. A survey was conducted among tourists who had tourism experiences within a year (October 2018 to September 2019) either abroad or Jeju island, and 736 responses were used in the analysis. Results from structural equation modeling analysis show that most of the hypotheses were supported. Our findings demonstrate that pleasure and detachment experience positively affect hedonic tourism happiness, while personal meaning and self-reflection experiences positively affect eudaimonic tourism happiness. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.
Topics: Happiness; Personal Satisfaction; Pleasure; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tourism
PubMed: 35162186
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19031162 -
Archives of Sexual Behavior Jan 2021Despite the fact that HIV can be controlled with medication to undetectable levels where it cannot be passed on, stigmatization of women living with HIV persists. Such...
Despite the fact that HIV can be controlled with medication to undetectable levels where it cannot be passed on, stigmatization of women living with HIV persists. Such stigmatization pivots on stereotypes around sex and sexism and has force in women's lives. Our aim was to create an inspirational resource for women living with HIV regarding sex, relationships, and sexuality: www.lifeandlovewithhiv.ca (launched in July 2018). This paper describes the development and mixed-method evaluation of our first year and a half activities. We situated our work within a participatory arts-based knowledge translation planning framework and used multiple data sources (Google Analytics, stories and comments on the website, team reflections over multiple meetings) to report on interim outcomes and impacts. In our first 1.5 years, we recruited and mentored 12 women living with HIV from around the world (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Spain, Nigeria, and the U.S.) to write their own stories, with the support of a mentor/editor, as a way of regaining control of HIV narratives and asserting their right to have pleasurable, fulfilling, and safer sexual lives. Writers published 43 stories about pleasure, orgasm, bodies, identities, trauma, resilience, dating, disclosure, self-love, and motherhood. Our social media community grew to 1600, and our website received approximately 300 visits per month, most by women (70%) and people aged 25-44 years (65%), from more than 50 cities globally, with shifts in use and demographics over time. Qualitative data indicated the power of feminist digital storytelling for opportunity, access, validation, and healing, though not without risks. We offer recommendations to others interested in using arts-based digital methods to advance social equity in sexual health.
Topics: Female; HIV Infections; Humans; Narrative Therapy; Pleasure; Sexual Behavior
PubMed: 33231828
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-020-01822-8 -
Thorax Sep 2015
Topics: Anger; Humans; Pleasure; Publishing
PubMed: 26272929
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207508 -
The International Journal on Drug Policy Jul 2022GHB is used among some sexuality and gender diverse populations at elevated rates, however little qualitative research has explored GHB use among these populations with...
BACKGROUND
GHB is used among some sexuality and gender diverse populations at elevated rates, however little qualitative research has explored GHB use among these populations with regards to diverse contexts, settings, practices, and experiences of use. Internationally, harms relating to GHB overdose appear to be increasing. Research outlining consumers' experiences of GHB-related pleasures and their strategies to reduce harms may inform GHB education and intervention responses.
METHODS
N = 31 participants reporting three or more occasions of GHB use within the previous 12 months were recruited via digital advertising and snowball methods. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, data were transcribed and analysed in NVivo using a thematic framework analysis. Emergent themes were charted, and divergences and convergences were considered with regards to the sexuality and gender identities of participants.
RESULTS
Pleasures associated with GHB were described in relation to the sensation of the GHB high and experiences of intimacy, and connection. GHB was used to enhance socialising and sex in domestic, private, and commercial venues. Participants prioritised terminology of 'control' when describing their practices associated with GHB dosing, measuring, timing and peer moderation. Most participants reported personal experience of GHB overdose with loss of consciousness.
CONCLUSION
Participants' near-ubiquitous experience of GHB overdose highlights ongoing education needs around overdose prevention. Efforts must target people new to GHB use who appeared particularly susceptible to overdose. Inconsistencies in understandings around GHB overdose, the perceived severity of overdose and the differences between GHB and its precursors GBL and 1,4-BD, highlight potential focus areas of future education responses. Further research is required to better understand consumers' experiences of sexual violence in the context of GHB use.
Topics: Drug Overdose; Gender Identity; Humans; Pleasure; Sexual Behavior; Sexuality; Sodium Oxybate
PubMed: 35643047
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103747 -
Global Public Health Oct 2022Pleasure and protagonism are two words that define Maria de Jesus Almeida Costa, or Dijé, as friends call her. She was just an adolescent when she first arrived in the...
Pleasure and protagonism are two words that define Maria de Jesus Almeida Costa, or Dijé, as friends call her. She was just an adolescent when she first arrived in the São Luiz red light district and began to fight against the violence and injustice she witnessed. Today, she is 62 years old and the leader of the sex worker movement in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, in the Northeast region of the country. She is widely recognised for her tireless fight for the preservation of the historical centre of São Luiz where the red light district remains to this day, and where Jesus also raised her children and lives to this day. In this interview, Jesus talks about the pleasures and dangers of prostitution, her fight against racism and sex work stigma, her relationship with the academy and researchers, the alliances and partnerships she mobilised during the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges that she is facing in Brazil's current conservative, far-right government.
Topics: Adolescent; Brazil; COVID-19; Child; Female; Humans; Middle Aged; Pandemics; Pleasure; Sex Workers
PubMed: 35929969
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2022.2105376 -
PloS One 2015Research in motivation and emotion has been increasingly influenced by the perspective that processes underpinning the motivated approach of rewarding goals are distinct...
Research in motivation and emotion has been increasingly influenced by the perspective that processes underpinning the motivated approach of rewarding goals are distinct from those underpinning enjoyment during reward consummation. This distinction recently inspired the construction of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS), a self-report measure that distinguishes trait anticipatory pleasure (pre-reward feelings of desire) from consummatory pleasure (feelings of enjoyment and gratification upon reward attainment). In a university community sample (N = 97), we examined the TEPS subscales as predictors of (1) the willingness to expend effort for monetary rewards, and (2) affective responses to a pleasant mood induction procedure. Results showed that both anticipatory pleasure and a well-known trait measure of reward motivation predicted effort-expenditure for rewards when the probability of being rewarded was relatively low. Against expectations, consummatory pleasure was unrelated to induced pleasant affect. Taken together, our findings provide support for the validity of the TEPS anticipatory pleasure scale, but not the consummatory pleasure scale.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Anticipation, Psychological; Female; Humans; Male; Motivation; Pleasure; Reward
PubMed: 26115223
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131357 -
Psychology of Sport and Exercise Nov 2023Virtual Reality (VR) provides an enjoyable addition to stationary physical exercise and can improve performance while exercising. The aim of this study is to explore the...
Virtual Reality (VR) provides an enjoyable addition to stationary physical exercise and can improve performance while exercising. The aim of this study is to explore the effectiveness of three interactive virtual environments (i.e., social, relaxing, stressful) on enjoyment and persistence during strength-based exercises. In a within-subjects experiment, 97 healthy young adults completed four consecutive sets of two strength-based exercises. Participants completed one set as baseline and then each participant completed three more sets in three different interactive environments, experienced through a VR headset. Results showed that both the stressful virtual environment, where participants were hanging suspended over a city, and the social virtual environment where participants were audibly encouraged in a stadium, increased participants' persistence in both exercises, when compared to the relaxing virtual environment. Specifically, the relaxing sunny beach environment caused poorer performances in a dead hang exercise among men (n = 30), and poorer performances in a core exercise among women (n = 66). Somewhat paradoxically, this relaxing virtual beach environment was considered the most enjoyable environment among both male and female participants. The potential of VR in exercise lies in its ability to provide pleasurable and performance-enhancing immersive environments that may be too expensive or dangerous in reality.
Topics: Young Adult; Female; Humans; Male; Pleasure; Happiness; Exercise; Exercise Therapy; Nutritional Status
PubMed: 37665929
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2023.102494