Human values are abstract ideals that motivate behavior. The motivational nature of human values raises the possibility that they might be underpinned by brain structures that are particularly involved in motivated behavior and reward processing. We hypothesized that variation in subcortical hubs of the reward system and their main connecting pathway, the superolateral medial forebrain bundle (...

This research investigated contents of actor and abstainer prototypes with regard to young adults' social drinking combining quantitative and qualitative approaches (adjective ratings, N = 300; open answers, N = 90). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses yielded two factors (sociability/hedonism, responsibility) in both prototypes, confirmed by qualitative data. Given the importance for ...

It is common to group theories of well-being into the following three categories: hedonism (the view that pleasure is the sole prudential good; pain the sole bad), desire-satisfactionism (a wide swath of views that claim, roughly speaking, that a person’s welfare depends on the satisfaction of her desires), and the objective-list (the view that prudential value is independent of an agent’s pro-...

This research aims to describe the hedonism portrayed in Shania Twain’s song. Moreover, it also at describing negative effect of on young people’s futures. The objective this study is analyze hedonic behavior expressed song lyrics and impact hedonism, especially for younger generation, as reflected "Ka-Ching!" chosen has many hedonistic behaviors, taken main data sung by Twain. Hermeneutic Inte...