Background Life engagement in the context of mental health is a broad term that describes
positive health aspects relating to cognition, vitality, motivation and reward, and the ability to …

Humans frequently engage in intrinsically rewarding activities (for example, consuming art,
reading). Despite such activities seeming diverse, we show that sensitivity to intrinsic …

Background and objectives Appetitive and aversive conditioning are thought to be involved
in the development and maintenance of mental disorders including anxiety, mood, eating …

Background Anhedonia is a common symptom of several disorders, but cost-effective
treatments that focus on anhedonia specifically have been lacking. Therefore, personalized …

Disturbances in positive emotion play a unique role in mental health problems, but little is
known about how positive emotion regulation (ER) processes unfold in daily life. The aim of …

Objective: Anhedonia, a diminished lack of reactivity to pleasurable stimuli, impairs positive
affective (PA) functioning in daily life. However, anhedonia's underlying mechanisms …

Background. Interventions for anhedonia often focus on re-engagement in pleasurable
activities. We aimed to examine how anhedonic individuals changed their lifestyle behavior …

Background. Interventions for anhedonia (loss of pleasure) often focus on re-engagement in
pleasurable activities (ie, behavioral activation). Using the Experience Sampling Method, we …