Pleasure in Understanding, Pleasure in Not Understanding

Understanding boys ’ ( dis ) engagement with reading for pleasure Project findings

Seeking the pleasure zone: Understanding young adult’s intoxication culture

Toward an understanding of anticipatory pleasure deficits in schizophrenia: Memory, prospection, and emotion experience.

Anticipatory pleasure deficits have been observed in people with schizophrenia. Less is known about the extent to which interrelated processes that comprise anticipatory pleasure, including memory, prospection, and emotion experience are disrupted. We asked people with (n = 32) and without (n = 29) schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder to provide memory and prospection narratives in respons...

Pleasure Centers in the Brain

Psychology has gone through a period of fantastic growth during the last 30 years, primarily because it seemed to offer college students some explanation of their malaise and some understanding of themselves which would free them from anxiety. Then why, if we are interested in the weal of these college students, do we expend our research on albino rats? Facetious though it may appear, there mus...

Pleasure and Illusion in Plato

Plato links pleasure with illusion, and this link explains his rejection of the view that all desires are rational desires for the good. The Protagoras and Gorgias show connections between pleasure and illusion; the Republic develops these into a psychological theory. One part of the soul is not only prone to illusions, but also incapable of the kind of reasoning that can dispel them. Pleasure ...