I argue that, insofar as we endorse the general idea that desires play an important role in well-being, ought to believe their significance for well-being is derived from a pair of more fundamental attitudes: attraction and aversion. Attraction has wholly positive aversion negative well-being. Desire satisfaction frustration have relevant involve some combination defend these claims by illustra...

The paper asks how parenting desires are associated with the construction of sexual identity and what factors most influence whether gays/lesbians, bisexuals, heterosexuals declaring same-sex attraction want to have (more) children. subject has been explored mainly in Western liberal gay-family-friendly legislation social environment so far. Our study was conducted Czech Republic, a CEE country...

New panel data from the National Surveys of Families and Households are used to investigate effects of wives’ and husbands’ childbearing desires on their partners’ intentions, and the effects of couples’ desires and intentions on subsequent births. The results show clearly that husbands’ desires and intentions influence couples’ births, with approximately equal force to that of wives’ desires a...

BACKGROUND Factors influencing fertility desires among HIV-infected individuals remain poorly understood. With new recommendations for universal HIV treatment and increasing antiretroviral therapy (ART) access, we sought to evaluate how access to early ART influences fertility desires among HIV-infected ART-naïve women. METHODS Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with a select ...

If an agent desires that φ and desires that ψ, this agent often also desires that φ and ψ hold at the same time (φ∧ψ). However, there are cases where φ ∧ ψ may be found less satisfactory for the agent than each of φ or ψ alone. This paper is a first attempt at modeling such nonmonotonic desires. The approach is developed in the setting of possibility theory, since it has been recently pointed o...

This paper offers a simple but powerful model of wishful thinking, cognitive dissonance, and related biases. Choices maximize subjective expected utility, but beliefs depend on the decision maker’s interests as well as on relevant information. Simplifying assumptions yield a representation in which the payoff in an event affects beliefs as if it were part of the evidence about its likelihood. A...

In the present study, we used experience sampling to measure desires and desire regulation in everyday life. Our analysis included data from 205 adults, who furnished a total of 7,827 reports of their desires over the course of a week. Across various desire domains, results revealed substantial differences in desire frequency and strength, the degree of conflict between desires and other goals,...

The authors present a polytomous item randomized response model to measure socially sensitive consumer behavior. It complements established methods in marketing to correct for social desirability bias a posteriori and traditional randomized response models to prevent social desirability bias a priori. The model allows for individual-level inferences at the construct level while protecting the p...