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Pleasure-Pain Principle

Known as: Pleasure Pain Principle, Pleasure-Pain Principles, Principle, Pleasure-Pain 
The psychoanalytic concept that man instinctively seeks to avoid pain and discomfort and strives for gratification and pleasure.
National Institutes of Health

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Psychoanalysis

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2020
2020
“I just don't look forward to anything”. How anticipatory pleasure and negative beliefs contribute to goal-directed activity in patients with negative symptoms of psychosis
Review
2019
Review
2019
A meta-analysis of self-reported anticipatory and consummatory pleasure in the schizophrenia-spectrum.
2018
2018
“We’re like the sex CPR dummies”: Young women’s understandings of (hetero)sexual pleasure in university accommodation
In this article, we explore the discourses that affect young women’s experiences of (hetero)sexual pleasure, drawing on data from… 
Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
Anticipatory and Consummatory Pleasure and Displeasure in Major Depressive Disorder: An Experience Sampling Study
Pleasure and displeasure can be parsed into anticipatory and consummatory phases. However, research on pleasure and displeasure… 
2016
2016
Spectacular Television: Exploring Televisual Pleasure
Today, it is tempting to see the rise of HD television as ushering in a new era of spectacular television. Yet since its earliest… 
2015
2015
Trait Anticipatory Pleasure Predicts Effort Expenditure for Reward
Research in motivation and emotion has been increasingly influenced by the perspective that processes underpinning the motivated… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
The Penumbral Theory of Masochistic Pleasure
Being whipped, getting a deep-tissue massage, eating hot chili peppers, running marathons, and getting tattooed are all painful… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Quantum gravity effects in geodesic motion and predictions of equivalence principle violation
We show that the Equivalence Principle is violated by Quantum Gravity (QG) effects. The predicted violations are compared to… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
When Guilt Begets Pleasure: The Positive Effect of a Negative Emotion
Understanding how emotions can affect pleasure has important implications both for people and for firms’ communication strategies… 
1987
1987
Pleasure and preference in a two-dimensional sensory space
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