Desire and motivation in desire theories of well-being

Desire and Desire Regulation

A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

Implicit theories of a desire for fame.

The aim of the present studies was to generate implicit theories of a desire for fame among the general population. In Study 1, we were able to develop a nine-factor analytic model of conceptions of the desire to be famous that initially comprised nine separate factors; ambition, meaning derived through comparison with others, psychologically vulnerable, attention seeking, conceitedness, social...

When what one has is enough: Mindfulness, financial desire discrepancy, and subjective well-being

Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 806 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23284-2018, USA Department of Psychology, Knox College, Galesburg, IL 61401, USA Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA d School of Psychology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK e The Wright Institute, Berkely, Calif...

Desire-Based Theories of Reasons, Pleasure, and Welfare

Circuits of sexual desire in hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

What Is HSDD? For both patients and health care providers, HSDD probably should mean “Having the Sexual Dysfunction Discussion” to diagnose and treat distressful conditions,1 but it really stands for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. The DSM-IV defines it as the persistent or recurring deficiency (or absence) of sexual fantasies or thoughts or desire for sexual activity associated with persona...