Abstract Some philosophers and psychologists share an assumption that pleasure is by nature such when experience pleasurable, agent motivated to continue having experience. In this paper, I dispute assumption. First, point out how it does not make sense of the wanting-liking distinction in motivational neuroscience. Second, present as a counterexample what call’dynamic pleasure’ which motivate ...

Anticipatory anhedonia in schizophrenia subjects L'anhédonie anticipatoire dans les schizo-phrénies Dear Editors, The distinction between the experience of pleasure related either to online experience in response to a specific stimulus (consummatory pleasure) or to future pleasurable activities (anticipatory pleasure) has been proposed by Klein [7] in a theoretical paper. Recently, accumulated ...

Cognitive conflict plays an important role in tuning cognitive control to the situation at hand. Based on earlier findings that have demonstrated emotional modulations of conflict processing, we predicted that affective states may adaptively regulate goal-directed behavior that is driven by conflict. This hypothesis was tested by measuring conflict-driven control adaptations following experimen...

BACKGROUND Physical inactivity is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Many patterns of physical activity involvement are established early in life. To date, the role of easily identifiable early-life individual predictors of PA, such as childhood temperament, remains relatively unexplored. Here, we tested whether childhood temperamental activity level, high intensity pleasure, low intensity...