Immersive imaginative hedonism: Daydreaming as experiential ‘consumption’

THE SCIENCE OF HEDONISTIC CONSUMPTION Constrained Physical Space Constrains Hedonism

Prior research shows that people demonstrate greater regulation of motor and social activities when they are in a confined physical space. This article examines whether space constraint affects people’s behavior toward hedonistic consumption of vice products (e.g., high-calorie foods) and their self-regulation in general. We propose that space constraint may have a generalized effect that enhan...

Experiential learning as a method to enhance experiential teaching

The imaginative mind.

The astounding capacity for the human imagination to be engaged across a wide range of contexts is limitless and fundamental to our day-to-day experiences. Although processes of imagination are central to human psychological function, they rarely occupy center stage in academic discourse or empirical study within psychological and neuroscientific realms. The aim of this paper is to tackle this ...

Waiting for Merlot: anticipatory consumption of experiential and material purchases.

Experiential purchases (money spent on doing) tend to provide more enduring happiness than material purchases (money spent on having). Although most research comparing these two types of purchases has focused on their downstream hedonic consequences, the present research investigated hedonic differences that occur before consumption. We argue that waiting for experiences tends to be more positi...

Daydreaming styles and nocturnal dreaming.

College students were administered the Imaginal Processes Inventory and were asked to record their nocturnal dreams in a diary. The dreams of students selected as representing extremely different styles of waking fantasy according to the Imaginal Processes Inventory were analyzed with regard to bizarreness, emotionality, emotional polarity, and variety of content. Significant differences in the...