In mammals, the hedonic aspects (good versus bad) and sensory aspects (i.e., the molecular quality) of taste are associated with different brain regions. Anatomical data argue against such a separation in the primary taste center of Drosophila larvae. Is only one aspect of taste represented or do both co-exist at the same location? I present evidence for a hedonic representation in the larval t...

A minimal requirement on allocative efficiency in the social sciences is Pareto optimality. In this paper, we identify a far-reaching structural connection between Pareto optimal and perfect partitions that has various algorithmic consequences for coalition formation. In particular, we show that computing and verifying Pareto optimal partitions in general hedonic games and B-hedonic games is in...

Economic models for hedonic markets characterize the pricing of bundles of attributes and the demand and supply of these attributes under different assumptions about market structure, preferences, and technology (see Jan Tinbergen [1956], Sherwin Rosen [1974], and Dennis Epple [1987] for contributions to this literature). While the theory is well formulated and delivers some elegant analytical ...

With the proliferation of hedonic information systems, understanding users’ acceptance of hedonic information systems has become a new topic for practitioners and academics. While perceived playfulness or perceived enjoyment has been found to have a significant influence on the behavioral intention to use hedonic information systems, little research has been conducted to investigate empirically...

We consider classes of hedonic games in which each player’s preferences over coalition structures are induced by the best player (Band B-hedonic games) or the worst player (Wand W-hedonic games) in his coalition. For these classes, which allow for concise representation, we analyze the computational complexity of deciding the existence of and computing individually stable, Nash stable, and indi...

The hedonic price literature suggests that locations with more favourable characteristics should display compensating wage and house price differentials. Estimates of the marginal willingness to pay for small changes in climate variables are derived using the hedonic price technique applied to Italian data. A hedonic price model was specified in terms of January and July averages. There exists ...

Hedonic expectations and global memories converge, but both are poorly related to actual hedonic experience. We find that the economic value of a car predicts the reported hedonic experience of driving under prospective (How would it feel?) and global retrospective (How does it usually feel?) conditions, but not under episodic conditions (How did it feel last time?), unless the car was the foca...

With the rising prevalence of obesity, hedonic eating has become an important theme in obesity research. Hedonic eating is thought to be that driven by the reward of food consumption and not metabolic need, and this has focused attention on the brain reward system and how its dysregulation may cause overeating and obesity. Here, we begin by examining the brain reward system and the evidence for...

The question of whether opiates stimulate feeding by enhancing taste pleasure was investigated by examining the effect of morphine upon hedonic and aversive reactions to taste (tongue protrusions, gapes, etc.). Rats (n = 12) were given SC injections of morphine (4 mg/kg) or equal volumes of isotonic saline 2 h after the start of their daily light cycle. Food intake was measured in a 2-h test. O...

Using a mobile-phone-based experience-sampling technology in a sample of 378 individuals ranging from 14 to 86 years of age, we investigated age differences in how people want to influence their feelings in their daily lives. Contra-hedonic motivations of wanting either to maintain or enhance negative affect or to dampen positive affect were most prevalent in adolescence, whereas prohedonic mot...