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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"hedonics"”.
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Consumer Evaluation of Cheese: Linking Hedonics, Emotions and Perception of Product Attributes
… and (2) determine if the initial emotions and hedonics could better represent end product liking than hedonics alone. Seven convenience string cheese varieties with varying sodium and fat contents were evaluated using the Image Measurement of Emotion and Texture (IMET) method. Seven emotions …
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Hedonics, Reward Prediction, and Reinforcement Learning in Schizophrenia: Relationships to Anhedonia and Avolition
… with schizophrenia. The first process, hedonics, or the enjoyment of pleasant experiences, was examined using an fMRI study of emotional experience in response to affective stimuli. Results were similar between patients and controls at a group level, but patients with greater …
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Endocannabinoid Modulation of Spatial Memory in Aversively and Appetitively Motivated Barnes Maze Tasks
… disruption on extinction result from the hedonics (i.e., aversive vs. appetitive) or is related to the required responses associated with these disparate tasks. In order to evaluate whether the hedonics is the determining factor, we used either aversive (i.e., escape from bright lights and …
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A finite mixture approach for household residential choices
… demand have been primarily implemented through hedonics whereby hedonic price functions relate market value to residential housing stock. Hedonic price models, however, do not identity sub-markets and thus may represent the workings of housing market and the valuation of amenities and …
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An Hedonomic Evaluation Of Pleasurable Human-technology Experience: The Effect Of Exposure And Aesthetics On The Experience Of Flow
… 'Exposure' component of the EHH framework and hedonics of the system were investigated to see how changes would affect other dimensions, such as the occurrence of flow, the mode of interaction, and the needs of the user. Simulations and video games were used to investigate how repeated exposure …
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An evaluation of sensory comfort components of survey questionnaires used for indoor environment problems in buildings
… theory draws upon many disciplines including, hedonics, psychometrics, and olfaction theory. The fundamental domains thermal, air quality, lighting, and acoustics and their dimensions are identified. The conceptual model integrates these theories underlying human response to sensory comfort. …
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The ins and outs of pleasure: roles and importance of hedonic value
… afterwards. Finally, these inputs and outputs of hedonics were integrated into a model specifying principal roles of pleasure in human behaviour. This pleasure-incentive model explains the effects of pleasure on incentive motivation, and makes important predictions about the mechanisms of …
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INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF α6 and α4 CONTAINING NEURONAL NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS IN NICOTINE AND COCAINE CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE TESTS IN MICE.
… thereby validating the specificity of hedonics of targeting α6* nAChRs in CPP. Our studies suggest that α6β2* and α4β2*nAChR should be further characterized for future nicotine cessation therapies, and α6β2* could provide a new target for treating cocaine addiction.</p>
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Estimating the value of groundwater in irrigation
In recent years there has been increasing regulation of agricultural water use in order to reduce transboundary and environmental water conflicts. Effective policy analysis to support new regulations needs to have tools to estimate correctly the value of irrigation water. Irrigating land increases …
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Topics in Hedonic Valuation
… </p><p>The first chapter uses property value hedonics to reveal household willingness to pay for brownfield cleanup (joint work with Kevin Haninger and Christopher Timmins). We exploit variation in space and time to deal with the potential bias in estimating MWTP due to unobservable variables …
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Understanding the role of human microbiota on sensory perception
… bitterness of 6-n-propylithiuracil (PROP), hedonics and intensity of oral sensations elicited by ten commercially-available food products, a battery of food-related psychological traits, a 4-day food record, and one salivary and one stool sample (sequenced by targeting the 16s rRNA gene) …
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A Hedonic Study of Prepackaged Software
This study verifies previous econometric research which found that spreadsheet prices, when adjusted for quality improvement, decline over the period 1986-1993. New econometric work is presented for prepackaged word processing software. Using objective criteria for variable selection, the model …
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Three Essays on the Housing Market
<p>My dissertation comprises three essays on the housing market. The first two chapters analyze the housing market using the hedonic model. Chapter 1 estimates a semi-nonparametric hedonic regression that provides evidence for the change of bidding and sorting for job-access over time in Buffalo …
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Three Essays On The Housing Market
<p>My dissertation comprises three essays on the housing market. The first two chapters analyze the housing market using the hedonic model. Chapter 1 estimates a semi-nonparametric hedonic regression that provides evidence for the change of bidding and sorting for job-access over time in Buffalo …
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A Hedonic and Eudaimonic Model of Customer Well-being through Integrated Resort Experiences
A common assumption holds that tourism generally contributes to customers’ well-being by offering them opportunities to satisfy their needs through escape aids, problem solvers, energy, new lifeblood, and happiness. However, the mechanism behind the effects of travel activities remains unknown. …
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Expectations Do Not Always Influence Food Liking
<p>The purpose of the present experiment was to examine how expectations influence cracker ratings on a scale of likeability. A large body of research shows that expectations affect food experiences (Wansink, 2004; Eertmans, Baeyens & Van den Bergh, 2001; Kahkonen & Tuorila, 1998). Participants …