Building a neuroscience of pleasure and well-being
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Building a neuroscience of pleasure and well-being.
BACKGROUND: How is happiness generated via brain function in lucky individuals who have the good fortune to be happy? Conceptually, well-being or happiness has long been viewed as requiring at least two crucial ingredients: positive affect or pleasure (hedonia) and a sense of meaningfulness or engagement in life (eudaimonia). Science has recently made progress in relating hedonic pleasure to br...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2211-1522
DOI: 10.1186/2211-1522-1-3