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pleasurable emotion

Known as: pleasures, enjoyment, pleasurable feeling 
Sensation of enjoyment or gratification.
National Institutes of Health

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BrainNervous system structureOptimismanxiolysis (emotion)

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Euphoric moodFeeling contentHappinessHope (emotion)

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory… 
Review
2013
Review
2013
Pleasure principles: A review of research on hedonic consumption
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Pains and Pleasures of Social Life
890 PERSPECTIVES The special nature of the single-electron wave functions required for topological insu-lators arises naturally… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
The pleasure in context.
  • C. Duff
  • The International journal on drug policy
  • 2008
  • Corpus ID: 23025860
Review
2006
Review
2006
The neurobiology of positive emotions
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Ventral pallidum firing codes hedonic reward: when a bad taste turns good.
The ventral pallidum (VP) is a key structure in brain mesocorticolimbic reward circuits that mediate "liking" reactions to… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature
For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The seven great debates in the media literacy movement
In recent years, there has been an explosion of educational practices and curriculum resource materials that make use of the… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
John Brewer's landmark book brings to life the rich cultural life of eighteenth-century England. He describes how literature… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
The pleasures of sensation.
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