Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your perso...

Recently, it has been demonstrated that people associate each of the basic tastes (e.g., sweet, sour, bitter, and salty) with specific colors (e.g., red, green, black, and white). In the present study, we investigated whether pairs of colors (both associated with a particular taste or taste word) would give rise to stronger associations relative to pairs of colors that were associated with diff...

Previous studies have shown that egalitarianism maximizes expected social welfare in a contractarian original position with equally likely risk-averse agent tastes. The present paper characterizes agents by subsistence needs as well as by tastes, allows infinitely many possible need and taste profiles, and weakens the requirement that all possibilities be perceived as equally likely. Surplus-eg...

Results of 3 experiments showed that infant rats (age 13-17 days) generalize conditioned taste aversions between alcohol and non-alcohol tastes such as a mixture of sucrose and quinine, apple cider vinegar, or coffee. Nonreinforced preexposure to those tastes reduced generalized aversions between them. Generalization between alcohol and sucrose-quinine was reduced not only after preexposure to ...

In parallel to studies of various cases of synesthesia, many cross-modal correspondences have also been documented in nonsynesthetes. Among these correspondences, implicit associations between taste and pitch have been reported recently (Crisinel & Spence, 2009, 2010). Here, we replicate and extend these findings through explicit matching of sounds of varying pitch to a range of tastes/flavors....

The Sweet Taste Test (STT) is a standardized measure designed to index the ability to detect differences in sweet tastes (sweet taste sensitivity) and hedonic responses to sweet tastes (sweet taste liking). Profiles of response on the STT suggest enhanced hedonic responses to sweet tastes in psychiatric disorders characterized by dysfunctional reward processing systems, including binge-eating d...

In the last few years, online social networks have become an important part of people’s lives. They have made data describing the connections between people more accessible than it has ever been in the past. In light of this new technology, we can now explore the predictive power of social data. In this paper, we present a method to predict target variables that describe individuals based upon ...

in the heart of all life's events, there has always been an interest and need toward cultural and artistic issues. in daily life, people perceive the absence of these requirements which they try to meet during their leisure time. these needs actually refer to people's tastes and preferences according to which they organize their pastime. every social setting provokes its own inclinati...

Benzodiazepines such as chlordiazepoxide (CDP) promote feeding in a number of species. This effect has been interpreted generally to be an indirect consequence of benzodiazepine anti-anxiety action, although some have questioned whether it might not reflect instead a direct action upon the reinforcing properties of foods. The present study employed a behavioral measure that can discriminate bet...