How pleasure works: The new science of why we like what we like.

By P. Bloom. 2010

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The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience (2017, background): “The lack of specificity regarding fine-grained definitions of the self in the context of STEs may indicate that a more generalized, folk psychological sense of self is involved (Bloom, 2010; Gelman, 2003; Gillihan & Farah, 2005; Newman, Bloom, & Knobe, 2014).”
Celebrity Contagion and the Value of Objects (2011, background): “…is commonly thought of as a form of magical thinking in which people believe that a person’s immaterial qualities or essence can be transferred to an object through physical contact (Belk 1988; Bloom 2004, 2010; Frazer 1890; Mauss 1902; Nemeroff and Rozin 1994; Rozin et al. 1989; Tylor 1871).”
An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance (2013, unknown): “Such responsiveness to incentives is consistent with the proposal that the anterior cingulate tracks costs and benefits; it also shows that brain activity, like performance, does not decrease in an obligatory manner with sustained effort.”
Life satisfaction goes with pleasure and personal growth goes with interest: Further arguments for separating hedonic and eudaimonic well-being (2011, unknown): “By contrast, the notion of functioning in our model derives from updated perspectives in emotional and cognitive psychology (Bloom, 2010; Carver & Scheier, 2008; Damasio, 1994; Hsee & Zhang, 2010; Kringelbach & Berridge, 2010; Oatley, 1992; Scherer, 2009).”