Understanding Video Games as Emotional Experiences Page 1 CHAPTER 5 Understanding
Video Games as Emotional Experiences AKI JÄRVINEN Video game studies should delve …

College students (N= 162) listed activities that they found pleasurable, and provided ratings
of the degree to which those activities led them to feel each of 12 different joy-related …

We discuss the hypothesis that acquisition of knowledge is a deeply rooted psychological
need. But so is the desire for fast decisions and for minimizing cognitive efforts. There is a …

Over the past 2 decades, a major focus in psychological research has been on pursuing
happiness, positivity, and optimal human flourishing. Interestingly, little attention has been …

The article proposes a functional approach as a framework for the analysis of human well-
being. The model posits that the adaptive role of hedonic feelings is to regulate stability and …

Part II of this two-part article continues the discussion of what Maria Montessori viewed to be
the important components of her educational system. Because she developed the system …

The Playful Experiences (PLEX) framework is a categorization of playful experiences based
on previous theoretical work on pleasurable experiences, game experiences, emotions …

Abstract Resumen Background: In the study of well-being there are two partially overlapping
traditions that have been developed in parallel. Subjective well-being (SWB) has been …

This paper presents a new account of the pleasure we take in art. It distinguishes first
between two types of pleasure. Relief or r-pleasure is transient and marks the end of a state …

Über die Emotionalisierung der deutschen Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert besteht seit langem
Konsens. Jedoch gründet sich dieser Befund bislang in erster Linie auf die poetologische …