hedonic tone

Both theorists explain a person's arousal potential in terms of his or her hedonic tone.

It is important to note that intensity and hedonic tone, whilst similar, refer to different things.

The fourth property is called hedonic tone, the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness.

Cognitive functions, such as learning and hedonic tone, are impaired with zinc deficiency.

This results in an increase in hedonic tone.

Hedonic tone is the degree to which an odour is perceived as pleasant or unpleasant.

In environmental health the most important dimension of an odour is its acceptability, or 'hedonic tone' as it is sometimes called.

Hedonic tone is the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness associated with a given subject, state, or circumstance.

Zinc supplementation produces a rapid and dramatic improvement in hedonic tone (i.e., general level of happiness or pleasure) under these circumstances.

That is, the strength of the odor (intensity) and the pleasantness of an odor (hedonic tone).

Suffering and pleasure are respectively the negative and positive affects, or hedonic tones, or valences that psychologists often identify as basic in our emotional lives.

The two tools to either keep a good thing going or turn a Dunder Mifflin-esque ship around are, in academic parlance, "hedonic tone and proactive socialization behavior."

Sensation of odor has 4 properties related to threshold and tolerance: odor concentration, odor intensity, odor quality, and hedonic tone.

Hedonic tone explains most of the variation in how an event at work affects a worker's internal state (i.e., mood) and how this state is expressed to others.

Hemphill determined that effective leaders are most often those in groups which feel cohesive (viscidity) and in which there is a great deal of satisfaction among group members (hedonic tone).

The term is also used about the hedonic tone of feelings, affect, certain behaviors (for example, approach and avoidance), goal attainment or nonattainment, and conformity with or violation of norms.

An inverse relationship exists between hedonic tone and work affect, with hedonic tone negatively related to work performance and positively related to work withdrawal.

Psychological studies of bipolar disorder have examined the development of a wide range of both the core symptoms of psychomotor activation and related clusterings of depression/anxiety, increased hedonic tone, irritability/aggression and sometimes psychosis.

Solomon concludes that certain behaviors can become highly pleasurable: ".if they are derived from aversive processes they can provide a relatively enduring source of positive hedonic tone following the removal of the aversive reenforcer.

At birth, the infant experiences the world as a barrage of seemingly unrelated sensory stimuli, which s/he gradually learns to "yoke" together using cues such as "hedonic tone" (emotional quality), and temporal and intensity patterns shared between stimuli.

Through a series of Search Conferences and Participative Design Workshops, staff can develop an ideal-seking behaviour (Wandemberg, 1998) and a deeper/sustainable satisfaction in their workplace creating a positive Organizational Hedonic Tone which immediately translates into higher quality of work, i.e. greater output, lower costs .