Dissertations / Theses: 'Hedonizm'

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Matias, Milenne Ferreira de Sousa. "De remédio à bebida da felicidade: sociedade hedonista através das propagandas da Coca-Cola." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9090.

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The consequences of modernity led to great social changes that affected the composition of cultures, which brought about transformations of traditions, community ties and, consequently, the transmission of memory. The present work proposes to understand the social time in which we are inserted, analyzing the advertisements of Coca-Cola from the period of 1886 to 2015, with a representative sample on the main themes addressed in its campaigns throughout its history. The hypothesis that guided the present work is that the social time in which we live is not repressive - that compels individuals to dull autonomy - but rather hedonic, defined by the ideal of happy life, guided by the "pleasure principle" and the "Orgasmic experience" (Zigmund Bauman) as the analytical category of social behavior (PIRES).
As consequências da modernidade acarretaram em grandes mudanças sociais que afetaram a composição das culturas, o que ocasionou transformações das tradições, dos laços comunitários e, consequentemente, da transmissão da memória. O presente trabalho propõe compreender o tempo social em que estamos inseridos, analisando as propagandas da Coca-Cola do período de 1886 a 2015, com uma amostra representativa sobre os principais temas abordados em suas campanhas ao longo de sua história. A hipótese que orientou o presente trabalho é a de que o tempo social em que vivemos não é repressivo – que compele os indivíduos ao embotamento da autonomia – mas sim hedônico, definido pelo ideal de vida feliz, guiado pelo “principio do prazer” e a “experiência orgástica” (Zigmund Bauman) como categoria analítica do comportamento social (PIRES).

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Marti, Silas de Souza. "Territórios de exceção: resistência e hedonismo em ruínas urbanas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16136/tde-23062017-083413/.

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Territórios de exceção é uma investigação sobre o impacto e influência de espaços abandonados e arruinados na trama das cidades contemporâneas, entendidos neste estudo como ruínas urbanas. Nos últimos anos, a ruína urbana vem se configurando como território de exceção no tecido metropolitano. Elas são espaços para atividades clandestinas, em especial a prática de festas alternativas. Também servem de arena de circulação de novas estéticas e linguagens artísticas e influenciam novas tendências comportamentais que se refletem na arte contemporânea e na cultura pop. Escrito entre São Paulo e Detroit, o trabalho descreve experiências com as ruínas pós-industriais da cidade norte-americana e outros tipos de ruínas urbanas em São Paulo, em grande parte fruto de movimentos do mercado imobiliário e negligência de órgãos de preservação do patrimônio histórico e artístico. O objeto deste estudo é o culto contemporâneo à ruína, que se manifesta na ocupação de cinemas, fábricas, túneis, teatros, praças, viadutos e outros espaços urbanos em estado de ruína ou que tiveram seu uso subvertido por práticas hedonistas e artísticas. Seu objetivo é refletir sobre como esses espaços influenciam o imaginário coletivo na metrópole contemporânea e se organizam como plataforma de novas proposições urbanísticas.
Exceptional territories investigates the impact and influence of abandoned and ruined spaces in the fabric of contemporary cities, spaces regarded here as urban ruins. In recent years, urban ruins have established themselves as territories of exception in metropolitan environments. These are spaces used for clandestine or illegal activities, especially alternative parties. They also operate as spaces of circulation for new aesthetic and linguistic propositions and influence behavioural traits that have helped shape contemporary art and pop culture. Written in São Paulo and Detroit, this study describes experiences with post-industrial ruins in the American city and other kinds of urban ruins in São Paulo, often associated with real estate speculation and the neglect of heritage preservation authorities. The object of this study is the contemporary fixation on ruins, which manifests itself in cities through the occupation of abandoned cinemas, factories, tunnels, theatres, public squares, overpasses and other urban spaces in a ruinous state and whose use has been subverted by artistic practices. Its objective is to describe how these spaces influence the collective unconscious in the contemporary metropolis and reflect on how they operate as platforms for new urban planning propositions.

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Sludds, Paul. "Hedonism, well-being, and death." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489098.

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This thesis discusses theories of well-being with an emphasis on defending a particular kind of hedonism (what I will refer to as 'simple hedonism'). I hope to so show that hedonism as I construe it is tenable as a theory of well-being. Furthermore, will show that it compares favourably to rival theories. In the latter chapters I will explore the putative implications of this theory for the possibility that death is a misfortune for the one who dies. In doing so I will also consider in broader terms the plausibility of Epicurus' claim that death could never be a harm.

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Rusch, Thomas, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Patrick Mair, and Horst Treiblmaier. "Breaking Free from the Limitations of Classical Test Theory: Developing and Measuring Information Systems Scales Using Item Response Theory." Elsevier, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2016.06.005.

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Information systems (IS) research frequently uses survey data to measure the interplay between technological systems and human beings. Researchers have developed sophisticated procedures to build and validate multi-item scales that measure latent constructs. The vast majority of IS studies uses classical test theory (CTT), but this approach suffers from three major theoretical shortcomings: (1) it assumes a linear relationship between the latent variable and observed scores, which rarely represents the empirical reality of behavioral constructs; (2) the true score can either not be estimated directly or only by making assumptions that are difficult to be met; and (3) parameters such as reliability, discrimination, location, or factor loadings depend on the sample being used. To address these issues, we present item response theory (IRT) as a collection of viable alternatives for measuring continuous latent variables by means of categorical indicators (i.e., measurement variables). IRT offers several advantages: (1) it assumes nonlinear relationships; (2) it allows more appropriate estimation of the true score; (3) it can estimate item parameters independently of the sample being used; (4) it allows the researcher to select items that are in accordance with a desired model; and (5) it applies and generalizes concepts such as reliability and internal consistency, and thus allows researchers to derive more information about the measurement process. We use a CTT approach as well as Rasch models (a special class of IRT models) to demonstrate how a scale for measuring hedonic aspects of websites is developed under both approaches. The results illustrate how IRT can be successfully applied in IS research and provide better scale results than CTT. We conclude by explaining the most appropriate circumstances for applying IRT, as well as the limitations of IRT.

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Hensel, Andréia Rosina. "A superação do consumo hedonista e a contribuição da participação popular para o enfrentamento do problema socioambiental do resíduos sólidos urbanos." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2016. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/1640.

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A sociedade pós-moderna erigiu uma cultura que tem como traços característicos do indivíduo a idolatria ao consumo de bens materiais, o hedonismo, o hiperindividualismo e a apatia na participação política. O consumo, no contexto do modelo capitalista do último século, passou a ser tão intenso que superou a capacidade de sustentação dos recursos naturais repercutindo de forma danosa no meio ambiente. Esse fato fez surgir no plano normativo os direitos ecológicos que, a partir da sua inserção na Constituição Federal de 1988, redesenharam as estruturas jurídicas até então vigentes estabelecendo uma nova dimensão à noção de participação popular. A partir de então as práxis do consumo hedonista, do hiperindividualismo e do isolamento social passaram a representar uma antinomia face as condutas reclamadas pela esfera legal, quais sejam: o consumo consciente, a postura coletiva e o exercício da cidadania participativa. Para além da crise ambiental a pós-modernidade consolidou também uma crise do espírito humano onde o indivíduo, apartado de autonomia, tempo livre, equilíbrio, liberdade, sensibilidade, solidariedade, vive a Era do Vazio. Visando a superação dessa crise da civilização os direitos ecológicos traduzem não só a defesa do meio ambiente, mas também o resgate dos valores da solidariedade, da cooperação e da ética pela vida de todos os seres vivos imprescindíveis ao início da desejada superação paradigmática. Nesse sentido, a Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos representa um grande avanço no campo legislativo e também cultural na medida em que enaltece a importância da participação da sociedade na tutela do direito fundamental ao meio ambiente equilibrado, congregando o espírito de coletividade e de solidariedade no enfrentamento de questões ambientais, mais especificamente no que pertine ao manejo adequado dos resíduos sólidos. Ela propõe como instrumento gerador dessas práticas a educação ambiental, reforçando a importância desta disciplina para transposição dos atuais conceitos e valores que impedem a formação de um novo arquétipo ambiental.
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Postmodern society has erected a culture that has as characteristic features of the individual idolatry to the consumption of material goods,the hedonism, the hyper-individualism and the apathy in political participation. The consumption, in the context of the capitalist model of the last century, has become so intense that exceeded the sustentation capacity of natural resources reflecting in a harmful way in the environment. This fact caused to rise in the normative level the ecological rights, from its inclusion in the Federal Constitution of 1988, reshaped the legal structures in force until then establishing a new dimension to the notion of popular participation. Since then the práxis of hedonistic consumption, hyper-individualism and social isolation have come to represent an antinomy face the claimed conduct by the legal sphere, namely: conscious consumption, collective posture and exercise of participatory citizenship. To beyond of the environmental crisis the postmodernity also consolidated a human spirit crisis where the individual, deviated of autonomy, free time, balance, freedom, sensitivity, solidarity, lives the Era of Emptiness. Aiming to overcome this crisis of civilization the ecological rights reflect not only the defense of the environment, but also the rescue of the values of solidarity, cooperation and ethics for the life of all living beings essential to the beginning of the desired paradigmatic overcoming. In this sense, the National Policy on Solid Waste means a major advance in the legislative field and also cultural in the means that exalt the importance of society's participation in the tutelage of the fundamental right to a balanced environment, bringing the spirit of collectivity and solidarity in confronting environmental issues, specifically in respect to the proper management of solid waste. It proposes as the generator tool of these practices the environmental education, reinforcing the importance of this discipline for transposition of current concepts and values that prevent the formation of a new environmental archetype.

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Aso, Miranda Laura. "El triunfo de la apariencia sobre el ser. La construcción de la identidad mediante el consumo continuo de experiencias y su exhibición en redes sociales." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673015.

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Esta tesis parte del vínculo entre economía, cultura y sociedad establecido por autores clásicos como Weber, Simmel y la Escuela de Frankfurt. Tiende un puente entre la sociedad del consumo conspicuo de bienes materiales descrita por Veblen, donde regía una lógica de notoriedad posteriormente apoyada en el símbolo tangible de la marca, y la sociedad del postfordismo basada en la eficiencia just in time, en la que el individuo debe construirse a sí mismo ante la falta de referentes tradicionales como la familia y la religión. Debido a que los valores postmaterialistas que guían su conducta son frágiles, encuentra en el consumo una herramienta para forjar su identidad, siguiendo una lógica de autoafirmación. Concretamente, la halla en el consumo continuo de experiencias (término acuñado a raíz del protagonismo de las experiencias en la economía de servicios) y en su comunicación en redes sociales. Ambas dinámicas conforman juntas una tendencia social hegemónica situada en un plano intangible. Para argumentarlo, se utilizan teorías que hacen de bisagra entre el nivel social y el individual, como la dramaturgia de Goffman y el interaccionismo simbólico de Mead. Aplicando éste, la persona (“self”) se constituye en la continua interrelación entre el contenido proveniente de redes sociales (“mí”, llamado interacciones potenciadoras) y el generado como respuesta (“yo”, llamado interacciones comunicadoras). Se concluye que el consumidor ya no sólo participa en el proceso productivo como apunta Ritzer sino también en el publicitario, al crear contenido en las redes consideradas en la tesis (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube). Éstas estimulan la demanda de experiencias cada vez más variadas y novedosas, acelerando tanto la sofisticación de la oferta como el hedonismo experiencial, mientras aseguran su perpetuación y ejercen el papel de los mass media. Los ciclos de consumo y retorno de la inversión tienden a reducirse, el capital y los stocks parecen rotar más y el alquiler/ lo intangible se privilegia sobre la propiedad/ lo tangible. El estudio de la identidad permite ver cómo la sociología sirve a la comprensión del comportamiento del consumidor y es aplicable en ciencias sociales como el marketing, el turismo o el management; también en psicología social porque proporciona un marco de referencia para la investigación del FOMO (fear of missing out), que operativiza el constructo consumo continuo de experiencias. Para que los hallazgos se apliquen de forma ética, es necesario tener en cuenta que lo descrito sucede a costa del individuo, de su deshumanización y la debilitación de su sistema moral, que en vez de oponerse a la deriva del mercado la refuerza y anuncia el colapso de la civilización occidental. Al buscar la felicidad eudaimónica, el actor social se topa con la hedónica y la confunde con ella, dándose una relación dialógica entre ambas. La identidad que adquiere es: 1) estandarizada (resultado de la influencia uniformadora del mercado y las modas), 2) revisable (temporal y ansiosa), 3) imaginaria (fruto de una autoimagen engrandecida). Se perciben cinco consecuencias directas: falta de autoestima, falsas expectativas, insatisfacción, vacuidad y coste de oportunidad. Se detecta que las relaciones de amistad basadas en determinados valores como la libertad, la autenticidad y la empatía, contrarios a los presentes en la identidad estandarizada, revisable e imaginaria, pueden representar una alternativa. La investigación se efectuó en 2019, en una etapa anterior a la COVID-19. Se aplicó el análisis de contenido en 18 relatos comunicativos y 12 entrevistas semiestructuradas realizados a sujetos descontentos con el fenómeno de estudio y críticos con él, en el marco de las metodologías comunicativa y narrativa. Ambas ponen el foco en las oportunidades de transformación del individuo y su comunidad, al abrir la puerta al cuestionamiento ético de las tendencias sociales imperantes, la toma de conciencia de los procesos sociales que determinan la conducta y la adopción de estilos de vida alternativos como el consumerismo. Los ciudadanos también podrían crear redes colaborativas en comunidades regidas por principios de economía social. Por su parte, el sistema productivo podría estimular un consumo sostenible adaptado a las particularidades de los clientes que fortaleciera los vínculos entre ellos y fuera fuente de sentido existencial. La etapa venidera puede suponer una nueva aceleración de los actos de producción y consumo en un contexto de creciente inestabilidad, pero con espacio para la agencia individual y social.
The present thesis begins with the link between economy, culture and society established by classical authors such as Weber, Simmel and the Frankfurt School. It builds a bridge between the consumption society of material goods described by Veblen, ruled by a logic of conspicuousness later supported by the tangible symbols of brands, and the post-fordist society based on just-in-time efficiency, in which individuals have to construct themselves due to the lack of traditional referents such as family and religion. Given the fragility of postmaterialist values guiding behaviour, individuals find a way to forge their identity in consumption, according to a self-affirmation logic. More specifically, they find it in continuous consumption of experiences (a term coined as a result of the importance of experiences in the service economy), and in its communication through social media. Both dynamics form together a hegemonic social trend at an intangible level. This is supported by theories that connect the social and the individual realms, such as Goffman’s dramaturgy and Mead’s symbolic interactionism. By applying the latter, the self is constituted by the continuous interrelationship between the social media content (“me”, the so called empowering interactions) and the content generated as an answer (“I”, the so called communicative interactions). It is concluded that consumers do not only participate in the productive process, as Ritzer points out, but also in the advertising process, by creating content in the social media platforms considered in this thesis (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube). They stimulate the demand of increasingly varied and new experiences by accelerating both the sophistication of supply and the experiential hedonism. These platforms ensure their perpetuation this way while playing the role of mass media. Consumer cycles and return on investment tend to be reduced, capital and stocks seem to rotate more, and rentals and intangible goods are encouraged more than property and tangible goods. The study of identity is useful to see how sociology contributes to understand consumer behaviour and can be applied to social sciences such as marketing, tourism or management. It contributes also to social psychology by providing a theoretical framework for the research of FOMO (fear of missing out), which operationalises the continuous consumption of experiences construct. In order to apply the findings ethically, it must be considered that the abovementioned processes take place at the expense of individuals, of their dehumanization and the weakening of their moral system, which reinforces the market drift instead of opposing it and foresees the collapse of the Western civilization. When seeking for eudaimonic happiness, social actors encounter hedonic happiness and confuse it with the former. Consequently, a dialogical relationship between them is generated. The resultant identity is: 1) standardized (because of the uniformising influence of market and trends), 2) revisable (temporary and anxious), and 3) imaginary (the fruit of a magnified self-image). Five direct consequences are perceived: lack of self-esteem, false expectations, dissatisfaction, emptiness and opportunity costs. It is detected that friendships based on certain values such as freedom, authenticity and empathy, which are the opposite of those present in standardized, revisable and imaginary identities, may be an alternative. The research was carried out in 2019, in a prior stage of COVID-19. Content analysis was applied to 18 communicative daily life stories and 12 semi-structured interviews conducted with subjects dissatisfied and critical with the phenomenon studied, within the communicative and narrative methodologies framework. Both are set on the transformation opportunities of individuals and their communities by allowing them to question the ethics of the prevailing social trends, to raise awareness about the social processes determining their behaviour and to adopt alternative lifestyles such as consumerism. Citizens may also create collaborative networks in communities governed by principles of social economy. Likewise, the production system could stimulate a kind of sustainable consumption adapted to customers’ needs by strengthening the bonds among them, becoming a source of existential sense. The coming stage might involve the acceleration of production and consumption acts in a context of increasing instability but with room for individual and social agency.

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Sparr, Lina, and Frida Wälivaara. "Det bästa av två världar : En kvalitativ studie om förhållandet mellan upplevelser och relationer i en pop-up butik." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65484.

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Denna studie ämnar till att undersöka och analysera pop-up butiker för att kunna bidra med en ökad kunskap kring detta nya fenomen. Vårt främsta syfte är att undersöka hur företagets behov av att skapa relationer och kundens önskningar om att få en upplevelse möts i kontexten av en pop-up. För att få en förståelse kring detta avser studien även att undersöka vilka bakomliggande motiv företag har för öppnandet av en pop-up butik.
This study aims to investigate and analyze pop-up stores in order to contribute to increased knowledge about this new phenomenon. Our main purpose is to investigate how the company's needs to create relationships and how customers wish to get an experience come together in the context of a pop-up. In order to gain an understanding of this, the study also involves investigating the underlying motives companies have for the opening of a pop-up shop.

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Carpenter, Amber Danielle. "Hedonism on trial : a study in Plato's Philebus." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/hedonism-on-trial--a-study-in-platos-philebus(9ab86335-84cc-4c78-9d02-45f4c848fe57).html.

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In what follows I shall attempt to trace the anti-hedonist arguments presented by Plato in his late dialogue, the Philebus. I shall at the same time try to bring out the rationalist approach to ethics that is offered as an alternative. I shall argue that the rationalism put forward by Plato in this dialogue is distinctive and valuable. Although I shall say little about this, the project is offered in response to the recent enthusiasm in contemporary ethics for Aristotle. I shall therefore try to bring out the distinctive concerns about character and integrity that motivate Plato's approach to ethics in the Philebus. In the light of this, I hope to make clearer how certain apparently disparate concerns are in fact part of a single project, and to bring out what gets lost when we lose sight of this unity. By focusing attention on hedonism, I shall argue, Plato is able to work out a sophisticated moral psychology, and indeed an approach to thinking about morality and psychology, that differs importantly from a more familiar `building-blocks' approach to understanding persons. It is, I hope to show, by dealing simultaneously with methodology, metaphysics and psychology that Plato's view of the place of reason in a well-lived human life becomes interesting and perhaps even plausible. If, in the end, it is still `the philosophical life' that is the best, this will be because of the very specific way in which a life will be allowed to count as philosophical.

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M, Bashir Ayoub. "Tillämpning av hedonisk prissättning på bostadsrätter : En analys av bostadsmarknaden i Uppsala." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25261.

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Syftet med denna studie är att analysera vad det är som påverkar bostadspriserna på Uppsalas bostadsmarknad. Det är spekulanternas önskemål och krav, det vill säga deras betalningsvilja som påverkar priset. Det kan skilja sig mellan olika spekulanter men för det mesta ses ett tydligt mönster. Spekulanter värdesätter t.ex. områden som ligger nära centrum. Detta kan bero på att Uppsala är en studentstad där det är många studenter som rör sig från och till staden varje år. Bekvämlighet och närhet till bland annat universitet väger in mycket. Studiens statistik kommer från en av Uppsalas största mäklarbyråer Widerlöv & Co. Möjligheten att bolla tankar och idéer med några av deras mäklare som har varit aktiva i branschen länge har varit värdefull.
The purpose of this study is to get an overview of what it is that affects housing prices at Uppsala's housing market. My conclusion is that speculator´s willingness to pay is effected by their wishes and demands. Speculator´s appreciate the areas close to the city center. This may be due to Uppsala is a university town where there are many students who are moving from and to the city every year. For example convenience and proximity to university is often a high wish. I had access to statistics from one of the Uppsala´s largest real estate agency Widerlöv & Co. I also had the opportunity to discuss ideas with some of their brokers who have been active in the industry for a long time.

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Alegría, Carrasco Daniela, Lara Javiera Berríos, and Tobar Camila Díaz. "Hedonismo en el turismo médico." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/116659.

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Seminario para optar al título de Ingeniero Comercial, Mención Administración
Esta investigación tiene por objetivo, realizar un análisis con respecto al consumo Hedonista en el Turismo Médico. Para esto, en primera instancia se hará una revisión conceptual de los términos: “Hedonista”, y de esta manera poder profundizar en este concepto, posteriormente, se ahondará en el concepto “Self Construal”, concepto que se refiere a las percepciones que las personas tienen acerca de sus pensamientos, sentimientos y acciones en relación a los demás. Por último, se hablará del concepto de “Turismo Médico”, donde se revisará a profundidad su definición con sus respectivos autores, y además, se expondrán todos los países que están explotando esta nueva industria, que hoy en día resulta ser muy atractiva. Luego de la revisión bibliográfica, se hará un análisis por medio de test de diferencia de medias, con datos recopilados por medio de cuatro tipos de encuestas que se realizaron a jóvenes universitarios. Estas encuestas, se hicieron en base a dos países, Estados Unidos y Colombia, ambas poseen dos tipos de historias, en las cuales se les ofrece un tratamiento dental en dichos países, sin embargo un tipo de historia es más hedonista que la otra. Para este análisis se contó con grupos de comparación llamados variables independientes, dividiéndose en tipo de historia, hedonismo, colectivismo e individualismo, y riesgo país. También, se contó con variables dependientes, siendo estas Manipulation Check, Actitud, y finalmente Intención de compra. Para poder ver el comportamiento de los encuestados, es decir, si las historias fueron detectadas como más y menos hedonistas, se realizó un “Manipulation Check, y además, se hizo un análisis de la percepción del riesgo país de los encuestados. En el caso de la Actitud y la Intención de compra, se utilizaron las variables independientes para comprobar entre los diferentes grupos, cuál era el comportamiento de cada uno de ellos. Las conclusiones demostraron que las personas que fueron catalogadas como más hedonistas presentaban una mayor intención de compra del servicio, y una actitud más favorable.

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Säterbrink, Filip. "Hedonic House Price Index." Thesis, KTH, Matematisk statistik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-123583.

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Nasdaq OMX Valueguard-KTH Housing Index (HOX) is a hedonic price index that illustrates the price development of condominiums in Sweden, and that is obtained by using regression technique. Concerns have been raised regarding the influence of the monthly fee on the index. Low fee condominiums could be more popular because of the low monthly cost, high fee condominiums tend to sell for a lower price due to the high monthly cost. As the price of a condominium rises the importance of the monthly fee decreases. Because of this the monthly fee might affect the regression that produces the index. Furthermore,housing cooperatives are usually indebted. These loans are paid off by the monthly fee which can be considered to finance a debt that few are aware of. This issue has been investigated by iteratively estimating the importance of the level of debt in order to find a model that better takes into account the possible impact of the monthly fee on the price development. Due to a somewhat simplified model that produces index values with many cases of high standard deviation, no conclusive evidence has been found that confirms the initial hypothesis. Nevertheless, converting part of the monthly fee into debt has shown a general improvement of fitting a regression equation to the data. It is therefore recommended that real data on debt in housing cooperatives be tested in Valuegua

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Spradling, Matthew. "Role Based Hedonic Games." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cs_etds/38.

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In the hedonic coalition formation game model Roles Based Hedonic Games (RBHG), agents view teams as compositions of available roles. An agent's utility for a partition is based upon which role she fulfills within the coalition and which additional roles are being fulfilled within the coalition. I consider optimization and stability problems for settings with variable power on the part of the central authority and on the part of the agents. I prove several of these problems to be NP-complete or coNP-complete. I introduce heuristic methods for approximating solutions for a variety of these hard problems. I validate heuristics on real-world data scraped from League of Legends games.

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Engstedt, Andreas. "Arenabygget, ris eller ros? : en hedonisk prisstudie av kommuninvånarnas värdering av den nya arenan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-248036.

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This study is an examination of the stadium fever prevailing in Sweden. It is built stadiums in Sweden as never before. The high cost of these constructions end up in the end at the Swedish taxpayers. The study examines through the hedonic pricing of real estate how local residents value the new stadiums. The result indicates that local residents put a positive value in the costly and sumptuous buildings. The study includes 44 stadium constructions in 37 municipalities and is the first of its kind in Sweden.
Denna studie är en granskning av den arenafeber som råder i Sverige. Det byggs idrottsarenor i Sverige som aldrig förr. De stora kostnaderna för dessa byggen hamnar i slutändan hos de svenska skattebetalarna. Studien undersöker genom hedonisk prissättning av fastighetsmarknaden hur kommuninvånarna värderar de nya arenorna. Resultatet indikerar att kommuninvånarna lägger ett positivt värde i de kostsamma och praktfulla byggena. Studien omfattar 44 arenabyggen i 37 kommuner och är den första i sitt slag i Sverige.

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Long, Runfeng. "Impacts of shopping malls on the housing price - Evidence from Stockholm." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-277926.

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Shopping malls, as an important type of commercial facilities, are growing dramatically.They have gradually become one of the most dominant factors that can influence people's daily life as well as a city's economic development. People's willingness to pay for dwellings is also primarily associated with the surrounding commercial layout.Hence, it is of interest to find out more from a quantitative perspective on the relationship between shopping malls and housing prices. This study aims to analyzehow the prices of condominiums will be affected by the proximity of shopping malls.Two aspects are considered and examined in the empirical study, namely a proximity to the shopping mall, and the number of shopping malls within 3 kilometers radius. Wetry to examine if there is any price premium for those apartments near the shoppingmall or with more shopping malls in the neighborhood. In this empirical study, 36shopping malls in different locations in the county of Stockholm, Sweden, is utilized.The sample of transactions consists of 336,914 apartments. By using regression analysis, based on the traditional hedonic model, the results show that there is an inverse relationship between the apartment prices and its distance from the shopping mall while the number of shopping malls is positively correlated with apartment prices.
Köpcentra som en viktig typ av kommersiella anläggningar växer dramatiskt dessa år. De har gradvis blivit en av de mest dominerande faktorerna som kan påverka människors vardag och en stads ekonomiska utveckling. Människors villighet att betala för husen på marknaden är också till stor del kopplad till den omgivande kommersiella utformningen. Därför är det nödvändigt för oss att ta reda på mer i ett mer kvantitativt perspektiv om förhållandet mellan köpcentra och bostadspriset. Denna studie syftar tillatt diskutera hur priset på bostäder kommer att påverkas av köpcentra. Två aspekter beaktas och undersöks under en empirisk studie, som är närheten till köpcentret och den andra är antalet köpcentra inom 3 km avstånd. Målet är att avslöja om det finns något prispremie för dessa fastigheter nära köpcentret eller med fler köpcentra i närheten. I denna empiriska studie tas 36 köpcentra på olika platser som prov i Stockholms län, Sverige. Sedan kommer transaktionsdata där proverna består av 336,914 lägenheter behandlas och analyseras i Stata. Genom att använda giltiga transaktionsdata, kombinera med matematiska ekvationer och obligatorisk statistiskkunskap, är syftet med denna studie att beskriva och sammanfatta data för att sedan genomföra regressionsanalys baserat på fyra hedoniska modeller, inklusive både linjär och log-linjär form. Regressionsresultatet är signifikant vid 1% konfidensnivå, vilket innebär att de förklarande variablerna verkligen har betydande effekter på de beroende variablerna. Resultaten visar att det finns en omvänd relation mellan bostadspriset och dess avstånd från köpcentret. Medan antalet köpcentra är positivt korrelerat med bostadspriset.

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Campbell, Stephen Michael. "Phenomenal well-being." Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3834.

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Hedonism is not terribly popular as a theory of well-being. And there are good reasons to question whether hedonism even supplies the best account of happiness. Yet hedonism captures something important, and it will be the goal of this essay to articulate just what that is. I suggest that hedonism provides the best account of phenomenal wellbeing (PWB). PWB is a restricted form of well-being that relates to the quality of the experience of a lifeÂor, in other words, the quality of oneÂs phenomenal life. If wellbeing is characterized as Âhow well oneÂs life goes,Â then PWB is Âhow well oneÂs life goes for her, from the inside.Â In rating a lifeÂs PWB, the life is judged solely on the basis of the contents of the experience of that life rated against the experience of the individualÂs other possible lives. Unlike well-being, PWB is guaranteed to track more robust experiential benefits that a person gets out of living a life. In this work, I discuss the concept of well-being, including the feature of subjectrelativity that is sometimes ascribed to it; then, after introducing the concept of a phenomenal life, I develop the concept of phenomenal well-being. I propose what I take to be the best available account of PWB, which involves the hedonistic concept of satisfaction. An epistemic model of life-comparison (inspired by Peter RailtonÂs full information account of well-being) on which phenomenal lives are judged on the criterion of satisfaction is presented, followed by some objections, and replies, to PWB as satisfaction. Finally, some rival accounts of PWB are discussed and critiquedÂnotably, an account of cognitive life-satisfaction that resembles theories of Âlife-satisfactionÂ in happiness theory. The claim is that hedonism supplies the best answer to what makes the experience of our lives go best for us. In the closing chapter, I make some suggestions concerning the significance of this fact.

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Drakopoulos, Stavros A. "The influence of hedonism on the formation of economic theory." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1840.

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The prime objective of this thesis is to show that contrary to the common belief of historians of economic thought, hedonism has played a central and a continuous role in the development of economic theory. In the process of showing this, the thesis starts with a brief examination of the origins of hedonistic ideas in the works of ancient Greeks. The next chapter Is concerned with the reappearance (after a long break of several centuries) of the basic hedonistic ideas mainly In the thought of Gassendi, Helvetius and Hobbes, and their subsequent introduction to the field of economics with the work of Bentham, Mill, Senior and Cairnes. The main elements of hedonism (although somewhat modified) were also observed in the economic thought of leading marginalist theorists, the subject matter of the fourth chapter, With the marginalist school, hedonistically based terms became central to economic theory and generally economic theory was characterized by an explicit hedonistic orientation. The fifth chapter discusses the attempts to downplay hedonism as found in the work of Wicksteed, Pareto and Fisher. The reasons for these attempts were the heterodox criticism and the increasing influence of positivist scientific philosophies. The discussion supports the view that in essence hedonism did not disappear but was pushed into the background. The sixth chapter assesses the modern attempts towards a neutral economic science without psychological or philosophical connotations. The works of Robbins, Hicks, Samuelson as well as the current developments are examined. As a further indication of the hedonistic influence on economic theory, chapter seven deals with a discussion of alternative economic approaches which stem from non-hedonistic paradigms. Adam Smith, Marx and Keynes are mentioned as examples of non-hedonistically oriented economists, and lexicographic choice and non-maximizing theories of the firm are suggested as examples of theories which are independent of the hedonistic framework. The general conclusion of the thesis states that in spite of the neutralization attempts and contrary to the common belief of many theorists, hedonism is still an important underlying conceptual framework of economic theory.

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Haylett, Samantha Angelina. "The applied psychology of addictive orientations : studies in a 12-step treatment context." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.344102.

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The clinical data for the studies was collected at The PROMIS Recovery Centre, a Minnesota Model treatmentc entre for addictions,w hich encouragesth e membership and use of the 12 step Anonymous Fellowships, and is abstinence based. The area of addiction is contextualised in a review chapter which focuses on research relating to the phenomenon of cross addiction. A study examining the concept of "addictive orientations" in male and female addicts is described, which develops a study conductedb y StephensonM, aggi, Lefever, & Morojele (1995). This presents tudy found a four factor solution which appeared to be subdivisions of the previously found Hedonism and Nurturance factors. Self orientated nurturance (both food dimensions, shopping and caffeine), Other orientated nurturance (both compulsive helping dimensions and work), Sensation seeking hedonism (Drugs, prescription drugs, nicotine and marginally alcohol), and Power related hedonism (Both relationship dimensions, sex and gambling. This concept of "addictive orientations" is further explored in a non-clinical population, where again a four factor solution was found, very similar to that in the clinical population. This was thought to indicate that in terms of addictive orientation a pattern already exists in this non-clinical population, and that consideration should be given to why this is the case. These orientations are examined in terms of gender differences. It is suggested that the differences between genders reflect power-related role relationships between the sexes. In order to further elaborate the significance and meaning behind these orientations the next two chapters look at the contribution of personality variables and how addictive orientations relate to psychiatric symptomatology. Personality variables were differentially, and to a considerable extent predictably involved with the four factors for both males and females.C onscientiousnesws as positively associatedw ith "Other orientated Nurturance" and negatively associated with "Sensation seeking hedonism" (particularly for men). Neuroticism had a particularly strong association with the "Self orientated Nurturance" factor in the female population. More than twice the symptomatology variance was explained by the factor scores for females than it was for males. The most important factorial predictors for psychiatric symptomatology were the "Power related hedonism" factor for males, and "Self oriented nurturance" for females. The results are discussed from theoretical and treatment perspectives.

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Nord, Erik-Axel, and Marcus Wagell. "Bostadsrättspriser i Uppsala - en hedonisk studie." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Economics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-5952.

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Kruk, René van der. "Hedonic valuation of Dutch Wetlands /." [Amsterdam] : Thela Thesis, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/504395319.pdf.

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Al-Bassir, Soleman A. "Hedonic analysis of gasoline retailing." PDXScholar, 1988. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1214.

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Researchers have difficulty modeling the influence of retailing attributes on consumer choice. The literature of retailing that has dealt with this issue has conventionally used experimental data for estimating the influence of retailing attributes on consumer behavior. The present research applies hedonic analysis to the measurement of the value of retailing attributes. This is accomplished by applying hedonic specifications to supply and demand models for the retail sales of unleaded gasoline for the purpose of estimating the influence of specified retailing attributes on retail prices. Four retailing attributes-accessibility, convenience, service, and competition-were expected to have a determinable value that was measurable through hedonic specifications. Spatial competition was expected to influence retail prices by lowering them. The value of retailing attributes was expected to be variable relative to household income. It was found that the value of the specified retailing attributes could be isolated and determined. The application of hedonic analysis to the supply and demand of unleaded gasoline provided a relatively precise and consistent market value, which was represented by the "ask" and "bid" implicit prices of these retailing attributes. Spatial competition was seen to exert an important influence on retailing, tending to lower retail prices. The value of retailing attributes was found to be variable relative to household income. The relative consistency and precision of hedonic analysis in the measurement of the value of retailing attribute was reinforced insofar as the findings were consistent with generally accepted notions of retail marketing and consumer behavior as represented in the literature in the field.

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Ahn, Dohyun. "Does tragic drama have hedonic value? the social aspects of hedonic motivations and media enjoyment /." Thesis, [Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Libraries], 2009. http://purl.lib.ua.edu/2126.

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Fierro, Karen Patricia. "Hedonic housing prices in Ciudad Juárez." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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McCahill, Robert John. "A Hedonic Study of Prepackaged Software." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36766.

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This study verifies previous econometric research which found that spreadsheet prices, when adjusted for quality improvement, decline over the period 1986-1993. New econometric work is presented for prepackaged word processing software. Using objective criteria for variable selection, the model yields declining quality-adjusted prices for word processing software over the period 1985-1994.
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Sandt, Arthur Ralph. "Hedonic Functioning and Subthreshold Psychotic Symptoms." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/164124.

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Schizophrenia is a debilitating disorder with an array of affective, cognitive, and behavioral consequences. In addition to these impairments, research suggests that there is a distinct pattern of hedonic functioning in schizophrenia that may contribute to some of the most intractable symptoms of the disorder, the negative symptoms. Specifically, individuals with schizophrenia appear to experience deficient levels of pleasure during anticipation of a pleasurable stimulus, while experiencing typical levels of pleasure while directly engaged with a pleasurable stimulus. Despite these findings, it is unclear whether hedonic functioning deficits occur in individuals with subthreshold levels of psychotic symptoms and/or in individuals at clinical high risk for the disorder. The purpose of this study was to examine hedonic functioning in relation to the continuum of psychotic symptoms in a college undergraduate student sample, and in those at clinical risk for schizophrenia. Participants were 679 students who completed self-report measures of current psychotic-like experiences, and trait-like components of hedonic functioning (i.e., anticipatory and consummatory pleasure). Consistent with study hypotheses, deficits in anticipatory pleasure, but not in consummatory pleasure, were significantly associated with increased clinical risk for schizophrenia. However, this relation was found exclusively among women in the sample, whereas men did not show a significant relation between anticipatory pleasure deficits and clinical high-risk. Furthermore, anticipatory pleasure deficits were not significantly associated with increases in the number of positive psychotic symptoms endorsed. Moreover, consummatory pleasure was not associated with increases in the number of subthreshold positive psychotic symptoms, nor was there a relation with the number of distressing positive psychotic symptoms or clinical risk status. The present study provides the first examination of the relation between hedonic functioning and subthreshold psychotic symptoms, as well as the relation with clinical high-risk for psychosis. These findings suggest that anticipatory pleasure deficits may be more closely related to increased clinical risk for psychosis among women rather than increases in psychotic symptoms in the general population. Anticipatory pleasure deficits may be a useful target for intervention and prevention techniques among those at clinical risk for psychosis, especially in female at risk populations. Additional longitudinal studies will be essential for testing whether anticipatory pleasure deficits predict the occurrence of future psychotic disorders among those at high risk for the disorder in order to improve early identification and early intervention efforts in this population.
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Gray, Richard William. "Hedonic factors in human food choice." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388937.

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Persson, Martina, and Rashid Yakhyaev. "Autenticitet inom backpacking : En studie som undersöker autenticitet och hedonism inom backpacking." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Turismvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38687.

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Denna studie undersöker autenticitet och hedonism inom backpacking. Postmodernismen har lett till en homogenisering gällandede destinationer som backpackers besöker och aktiviteter de utför. Autentiska upplevelser blir således svårare att hitta samt urskilja på grund av den rådande massturismen. Denna studie mäter svenska backpackers uppfattningar och beteenden gällande autenticitet, med hjälp av en enkätundersökning som besvaras av 203 respondenter. Datainsamlingen presenteras i form av tabeller samt beskrivande text och analyseras med hjälp av ett teoretiskt ramverk som innefattar autenticitet, backpacking, hedonism samt välmående. Resultatet visar att svenska backpackers uppfattningar samt beteende har störst koppling till existentiell autenticitet och att den hedonistiska njutningen är en del av den moderna backpackern.
This study explores authenticity and hedonism in backpacking. Postmodernism has led to a homogenization in regards to the destinations that backpackers visit and the activities they perform. Authentic experiences are thus much more difficult to find and discern due to the prevailing mass tourism. This study measures Swedish backpacker's perceptions and behaviors regarding authenticity, using a questionnaire survey that is answered by 203 participants. Data collection is presented in the form of tables and descriptive text that is analyzed using a theoretical framework which includes authenticity, backpacking, hedonism and well-being. The result shows that Swedish backpacker's perceptions and behaviors are most closely linked to existential authenticity and that hedonistic enjoyment is part of the modern backpacker.

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Benda, Tim, John Lindblom, and Viktor Olsson. "Hedonic value of social media sharing : A quantitative study of how intentions to share affects hedonic value." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85287.

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The purpose of the paper is to explain the relation between motivations of intention to shareon social media and hedonic value. There has been a deductive approach to the research ofthe paper. The data which have been gathered has been done in a quantitative manner, bymaking use of a survey. The theoretical concepts which have been operationalized for thesurvey are the following, social conversation, social presence, easy-connection, intention toshare and hedonic value. There are four different hypotheses that have been developed andtested in the project. Social conversation has a positive impact on the intent to share contenton social media. Social presence has a positive impact on the intent to share content on socialmedia. Easy-connection has a positive impact on intent to share on social media and intentionto share has a positive impact on the hedonic value of social media use. The findings arefollowing, the first three hypotheses got rejected therefore, motivations of intention to shareon social media are connected with easy-connection, social conversation, and social presence.Additionally, intention to share on social media is accepted as having a positive impact on thehedonic value of social media use.

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Svensson, Andrei. "Kommunalki & Cottages : En beskrivning och hedonisk analys." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Economics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7624.

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Denna uppsats beskriver bostadsmarknaden i S:t Petersburg i två delar. Den första redogör för dess uppbyggnad i termer av arkitektur, stadsdelar och ägande – inklusive det rätt unika bostadsformen kommunalka – kollektiva lägenheter där individer äger enstaka rum och delar på kök och badrum. Därefter redogörs de främsta faktorer bakom utvecklingen på den under de tio åren fram till 2006. Bland dessa är det stora missnöjet med befintliga bostäder, en omfattande nybyggnation i stadens ytterkanter och den kraftiga utvecklingen på hypotekslånemarknaden.

I den andra delen görs en hedonisk prismodell utifrån en logaritmisk regressionsanalys av 16 000 bostäder till salu i stadens största bostadsguide där pris är den beroende variabeln och bostädernas egenskaper som yta, stadsdel, avstånd till centrum och arkitekturstil är de oberoende variablerna. Utifrån resultaten redogörs möjliga förklaringar till de olika egenskapers relativa effekt på bostadspriser. Resultaten jämförs slutligen med en liknande studie på bostadsmarknaden i Riga.

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Stedman, Jeffrey N. "Perfectionism, value pluralism, and the human good." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3215294.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 24, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-269).

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Andersson, Maria, Tajana Prevedan, and Sara Palmblad. "Atmospheric effects on hedonic and utilitarian customers." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-19614.

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This study brings up the importance of using the store environment as a tool for creating positive consumer experiences. It compares two consumer shopping motives, hedonic (related to sensations and fun) and utilitarian (related to fulfilling a task). The atmospheric variables that the environment consists of are discussed and found to be affecting these two consumer groups in different ways. The study takes a quantitative approach for investigating how these two consumer types are affected by the store environment. Hedonic and utilitarian consumers are then compared to see if there are any differences in how these consumers experience the store environment. The findings show that there are no differences in what atmospherics that are liked more by a hedonic compared to a utilitarian shopper. However, atmospherics are found to be more memorable for hedonic consumers. Hedonic consumers are also found to like being in the store more when signs are clear, and when it is easy to find departments, fitting rooms and cash registers. The results also showed that to make hedonic customers revisit the store, retailers should focus on the style of the store, floor space allocation, product presentation, sound level, lighting and the interior material. To make utilitarian revisit the store, retailers should focus on atmospherics such as architecture, the cleanliness, floor space allocation, product presentation, flooring, color scheme of the store and the interior material.

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Pribić, Teodora. "Cognitive and hedonic responses to meal ingestion." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/457973.

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La respuesta biológica a una comida, considerada en su conjunto, incluye cambios fisiológicos, principalmente el proceso digestivo, y una experiencia sensorial, que involucra sensaciones homeostáticas (saciedad, plenitud) con una dimensión hedónica (bienestar digestivo, estado de ánimo). La experiencia postprandial depende de las características de la comida, así como de la receptibilidad del sujeto, que puede ser influenciada por una gran variedad de factores condicionantes. Las respuestas a una comida incluyen una serie de eventos antes, durante y después de la ingestión. El primer objetivo de este trabajo fue establecer la relación entre la percepción postprandial y la actividad cerebral. Las respuestas cerebrales se midieron mediante resonancia magnética funcional con el paradigma de “resting-state” y la percepción por escalas analógicas. Tras la ingesta de una comida de prueba, se observó una reducción significativa de la conectividad en varias regiones cerebrales, incluyendo el tálamo ventral y diferentes redes cerebrales sensoriomotoras. Además, la ingestión de la comida disminuyó significativamente la conectividad funcional inter-red de la ínsula anterior, pero aumentó la conectividad inter-red del tálamo, con varias otras regiones corticales. Estos cambios se relacionaron con las sensaciones postprandiales: la disminución de la conectividad insula-ACC/mOFC se relacionó con un aumento en la saciedad, plenitud y bienestar digestivo; la disminución de la conectividad tálamo-caudado se asoció con un menor aumento en la saciedad; y el aumento en la conectividad tálamo-S2 se relacionó con una menor plenitud. Por lo tanto, las respuestas perceptuales y emocionales a la ingesta se relacionan con la conectividad cerebral en redes funcionales especificas con el paradigma de “resting-state”. El segundo objetivo fue determinar el efecto del apetito sobre la experiencia postprandial. Mediante un diseño cruzado se demostró que, en comparación con un desayuno ligero, un desayuno alto en calorías, redujo la sensación de apetito e influyó en las respuestas a una comida subsecuente: aumentó la saciedad y la plenitud, pero redujo la sensación de bienestar digestivo postprandial. Por lo tanto, la modulación del apetito tiene efectos diferenciales sobre las respuestas cognitivas y emotivas a una comida. El tercer objetivo fue determinar los efectos de la educación sobre la experiencia postprandial. Mediante un diseño randomizado paralelo se demostró que un procedimiento de educación sensorio-cognitiva (pruebas de detección de sabores) mejoró no sólo la experiencia hedónica postprandial (bienestar digestivo, estado de ánimo), sino también las sensaciones homeostáticas (saciedad, plenitud), mientras que la educación ficticia no tuvo ningún efecto. Dado que las respuestas homeostáticas y hedónicas son disociables, la educación podría adaptarse a las diferentes condiciones. Mediante una serie de estudios de prueba de concepto, el presente trabajo abre un área de investigación sobre los factores que determinan las respuestas biológicas a la ingesta. La información derivada de este tipo de estudios puede ser aplicable a las estrategias de salud pública y a la planificación dietética en el manejo de la obesidad, trastornos de la alimentación y disfunciones gastrointestinales.
The biological response to a meal, considered as a whole, includes physiological changes, primarily the digestive process, and a sensory experience, involving homeostatic sensations (satiety, fullness) with a hedonic dimension (gustation, satisfaction, mood). The postprandial experience depends on the characteristics of the meal as well as on the responsiveness of the subject, which can be influenced by a large variety of conditioning factors. The responses to a meal include a series of events before, during and after ingestion. Our first aim was to establish the relation between postprandial perception and brain activity. Brain responses were measured through functional magnetic resonance and resting-state paradigm and perception by analogue scales. Following meal ingestion, a significant reduction in connectivity was observed within several brain regions including ventral thalamus and a number of sensorimotor cortical brain networks. Furthermore, meal ingestion significantly decreased functional inter-network connectivity of the anterior insula, but increased the inter-network connectivity of thalamus, with several other cortical regions. These changes were related to the changes in subjective perceptions: a decrease in insula-ACC/mOFC connectivity was related to an increase in satiety, fullness, and digestive well-being; a decrease in thalamus-caudate connectivity was associated with a smaller increase in satiety; and an increase in thalamus-S2 connectivity was related to a smaller increase in fullness. Hence, perceptual and emotional responses to food intake are related to brain connectivity in defined functional networks in conjunction with resting-state paradigm. Our second aim was to determine the effect of appetite on the postprandial experience. Using a cross-over design we demonstrated that, as compared to a low-calorie breakfast, a high-calorie breakfast, that reduced appetite, influenced the responses to a subsequent meal: it increased satiety and fullness, but reduced postprandial satisfaction after a palatable comfort meal. Hence, appetite modulation by preload conditioning has differential effects on the cognitive and emotive responses to a meal. Our third aim was to determine the effects of education on the postprandial experience. In a randomized parallel design, a sensory-cognitive educational intervention (taste recognition tests) enhanced, not only the hedonic postprandial experience, but also homeostatic sensations, whereas sham education had no effect. Since homeostatic and hedonic responses are dissociable, education might be tailored to target different conditions. By a series of proof-of-concept studies the present work opens an area of research on the factors that determine the biological responses to meal ingestion. This information may be applicable to public health strategies and dietary planning in the management of obesity, eating disorders and gastrointestinal dysfunctions.

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Fanning, Jasper E. "A spatial hedonic analysis of veterinarian incomes /." Search for this dissertation online, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.

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Sandberg, Krister. "Hedonic prices, economic growth, and spatial dependence." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Univ., 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-272.

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Sandes, Nelson Carvalho. "Clustering ensembles : a hedonic game theoretical approach." Universidade de Fortaleza, 2018. http://dspace.unifor.br/handle/tede/105662.

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Clustering ensembles (CE) is an approach that takes advantage of a set of clusterings, known as base partitions, to generate a consensus solution. The related literature has shown that usually the consensus partition has better quality in comparison with the single base partitions. This work tackles the CE problem from a hedonic game theoretical perspective. In the formulated cooperative game, the points (instances or objects) are viewed as players, while clusters are regarded as coalitions. The preferences of each player are stored in an evidence-accumulation matrix, obtained through the base partitions, which has properties that guarantee the existence of at least one Nash stable coalition structure. That is, a coalition structure where players do not have the incentive to move from their own coalition to another existent coalition. To achieve this kind of solution, we proposed the HGCE (Hedonic Game based Clustering Ensemble) algorithm, which is based on the best dynamics approach. Initially each player is in a singleton coalition, composed by itself. After that, in each iteration, each player has the option to switch to a new coalition where it will obtain a better payoff. This process repeats itself until it reaches an equilibrium, where players do not benefit anymore by changing coalitions. Because different coalition structures may emerge due to the order of the playes, we also developed a version of HGCE where the final solution is independent of the players ordering. Empirical experiments conducted on several data sets have shown that the coalition structure obtained by HGCE is frequently a better clustering solution in comparison with clusterings generated from others well known CE algorithms. The experiments also show that HGCE is computational efficient and resilient to random perturbations on the base partitions used as input of the algorithm. Keywords: Clustering, Clustering ensemble, Coalition, Hedonic games, Cooperative game theory.
Clustering ensembles (CE) é uma abordagem que se aproveita de um conjunto de cluster- ings, conhecidos como partições-base, para produzir uma partição consenso. A literatura tem demonstrado que a qualidade das partições obtidas pela abordagem CE é geralmente superior à qualidade das partições-base, quando consideradas individualmente. Este tra- balho aborda o problema de CE sob a perspectiva dos jogos hedônicos. No jogo cooperativo formulado, os pontos (instâncias ou objetos) são vistos como jogadores, enquanto os clus- ters são encarados como coalizões. As preferências de cada jogador são armazenadas em uma matriz de similaridade, obtida através das partições-base, que contém propriedades que garantem a existência de pelo menos uma estrutura de coalizão Nash estável. Ou seja, uma estrutura de coalizão em que os jogadores não possuem o incentivo de mudar de suas próprias coalizões para outra coalizão existente. Para alcançar esse tipo de solução, nós propusemos o algoritmo HGCE (Hedonic Game based Clustering Ensemble) que é baseado na abordagem de best response dynamics. Inicialmente, cada jogador está em uma coalizão com um elemento, composta por ele mesmo. Depois disso, em cada iteração, cada jogador pode se mover para uma nova coalizão, caso ele obtenha um payoff melhor. Este processo se repete até um equilíbrio ser alcançado, em que nenhum jogador se beneficia em mudar de coalizão. Pelo fato de diferentes estruturas de coalizão emergirem de acordo com a ordem dos jogadores, nós também desenvolvemos uma versão do algoritmo HGCE que é independente da ordem dos jogadores. Experimentos empíricos conduzidos em diversos conjuntos de dados mostram que a estrutura de coalizão obtida pelo algoritmo HGCE, em grande parcela dos casos, é uma solução de clustering melhor quando comparada com soluções obtidas por outros algoritmos que também adotam a abordagem de CE. Os experimentos mostram que o HGCE é computacionalmente eficiente e se demonstra resiliente a perturbações nas partições-base utilizadas como entrada do algoritmo. Palavras-chave: Clustering, Clustering ensembles, Coalizão, Jogos hedônicos, Teoria dos jogos cooperativos.

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Martinsson, Klara, and Lisa Olsson. "Geotracking as an indicator of prime location." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-277625.

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In Sweden, there is practically free rental setting in the retail market. While there is an indirect tenancy regulation that protects the tenant, it does not prevent the establishment of market rents.Rent levels are generally highest in the central business district (CBD), following a rental pattern that confirms the monocentric urban model. It is also confirmed in the classic works of Von Thünen, Alonso, Mills, and Muth, that strong links exist between price and centrality. Stockholm's inner city is a typical example of this. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether geotracking can be used as an indicator of a prime location. Since the monocentric model claims that rents levels should be highest in the most central parts of a city, geotracking will be investigated as a tool for measuring the degree of centrality. The geotracking variable is based on the number of passing pedestrians outside retail premises, while rent levels are collected by leasing contracts. Geotracking serves as anexplanatory variable in the hedonic model where rent levels work as the dependent variable.This thesis assumes that a more central location, within the CBD, has a higher number of passers by than a less central one. This is a quantitative research-based study on walking data from Footfall, as well as market information provided Cushman & Wakefield. Footfall is a tool within Datscha that quantifies peoples movement patterns by tracking them through the mobile phone network. During this study, over 370 leases will be examined, of which approximately 250 contracts will be used in a regression analysis. All premises are located in the central parts of Stockholm. The relationship between rent levels and pedestrian traffic will be analysed in a traditional hedonic price equation with linear regression analysis. Through Footfall, the average number of passersby is collected for each address between March 2019, up until March 2020. The study results in a positive, and statistically significant, relationship between the number of passers by and rents for retail. In other words, rent levels increase as pedestrian traffic past the premises increase. However, the statistical relationship is weak. In the past, numerous studies on the relationship between location, rent, and property prices have been carried out. However,to our knowledge, there are no earlier studies of significance where Footfall- data has been usedfor academic purposes, until now.
I Sverige är det så gott som fri hyressättning på butikhyresmarknaden. Det finns en indirekt hyresreglering som skyddar hyresgästen, men som inte hindrar etablering av marknadshyra. Hyresnivåerna är i allmänhet högst i CBD (stadskärnan) och i huvudsak enligt ett hyresmönster som kallas monocentrisk stadsmodell. Detta styrks även i studier från klassiska verk så som Von Thünen, Alonso, Mills och Muth, där starka kopplingar mellan pris och centralitet redovisas. Ett tydligt exempel är Stockholms innerstad. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka huruvida geotracking kan användas som en indikator för centraliteten av ett läge. Då den monocentriska stadsmodellen fastslår att hyresnivåerna bör vara högst i de mest centrala delarna av en stad, kommer geotracking undersökas som ett verktyg för att mäta graden av centralitet vidare inom just CBD. Variabeln för geotracking baseras på antalet förbipasserande fotgängare utanför detaljhandelslokaler medans hyresnivåerna samlas in från hyresavtal. Geotracking fungerar som en förklarande variabel iden hedoniska modellen, där hyresnivåer fungerar som den beroende variabeln. Rapporten bygger på antagandet att ett mer centralt läge inom CBD har ett högre antal förbipasserande än ett mindre centralt. Detta är en kvantitativ forskningsbaserad studie på promenaddata från Datscha (Footfall), samt marknadsinformation tillhandahållen av Cushman & Wakefield. Footfall ägs av Datscha och ärett verktyg som kvantifierar människors rörelsemönster. Under denna studie kommer över 370 hyresavtal att granskas, varav cirka 250 kontrakt kommer att användas i en regressionsanalys.Samtliga lokaler är lokaliserade i Stockholms innerstad. Förhållandet mellan hyresnivåer och fotgängstrafik kommer att analyseras i en traditionell hedonisk prisekvation med linjärregressionsanalys. Genom Footfall hämtas det genomsnittliga antalet förbipasserande för varje adress mellan mars 2019 fram till mars 2020.Studien Studien resulterar i ett positivt och statistiskt signifikant samband mellan antalet förbipasserande och hyror för detaljhandeln. Med andra ord, hyresnivåerna ökar när fotgängstrafiken förbi lokaler ökar. Sambandet är dock statistiskt svagt. Tidigare har det gjorts undersökningar på förhållandet mellan plats, hyror och fastighetspriser.

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Söderpalm, Anna. "Taste hedonics and the intake of alcohol and food." Sweden : Dept. of Psychology, Göteborg University, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/45881150.html.

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Rosa, Sónia Mariana Pedro. "O hedonismo versus utilitarismo em centros comerciais e ruas." Master's thesis, [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/3594.

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Dissertação apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Comunicação, especialização em Marketing e Publicidade
Este trabalho aborda a temática do hedonismo e do utilitarismo nos centros comerciais e nas ruas. A experiência de consumo incorpora várias vertentes, que têm junto dos consumidores, significados diversos. Para os consumidores hedónicos, as compras são uma fonte inesgotável de gratificação. Já os consumidores utilitários vêem as compras como algo de necessário. O estudo investiga a relação entre o hedonismo e o utilitarismo com a experiência de compra em centros comerciais e ruas. This paper adresses the issue of hedonism and utilitarism in shopping centers and streets. The consumer experience incorporates several aspects, which have among consumers, different meanings. For the hedonic consumers, shopping is a source of gratification. For the utilitarian consumers, shopping as a something necessary. The study investigates the relationship between hedonism and utilitarism with the shopping experience in shopping centers and streets.

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Huta, Veronika. "Pursuing pleasure versus growth and excellence : links with different aspects of well-being." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85919.

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Throughout history, two conceptions of happiness have been advocated. The hedonic ideal, which often predominates in modern Western societies, advocates enjoyment and avoidance of pain. The eudaimonic view argues that fulfillment comes from personal growth and excellence. This research was among the first empirical comparisons of eudaimonic and hedonic pursuits in terms of their actual relationships with happiness.
One study was conducted with a single questionnaire (117 participants) and a second used detailed experience-sampling (100 participants). In the majority of analyses, hedonic activity was linked with greater positive affect and lower negative affect than eudaimonic activity was, while eudaimonic activity was associated with greater meaning in life and higher personal expressiveness (i.e., authenticity, involvement, fulfillment, and feeling alive). These results suggest that positive and negative affect (more emotional and visceral) could be called hedonic well-being, while meaning and personal expressiveness (subtler, require thought, and involve feeling more integrated and right than good) might be called eudaimonic well-being. The findings also underline the limitations of assessing only hedonic happiness, as is usually done---it can lead to inaccurate conclusions about the benefits of eudaimonic pursuits.
The results also suggested a trade-off in time between the benefits of hedonic and eudaimonic activities. The links between hedonic activity and well-being were strongest during the activity but often weakened with time. In contrast, the links between eudaimonic activity and happiness were weakest during the activity but became stronger with repeated eudaimonic efforts. People with frequent eudaimonic interests were also happier during many activities, even hedonic ones, than those with few eudaimonic projects; such increased enjoyment was not experienced by people with frequent hedonic pursuits. These results are consistent with theories that hedonic activities produce immediate satisfaction but that it fades with time, whereas eudaimonic strivings are challenging but increase well-being in the long run. Eudaimonic activities may promote well-being by building personal capital, e.g., coping skills, improved life circumstances, and deeper appreciation of life experiences.
These findings suggest that the modern preoccupation with enjoyment and comfort is an incomplete ideal. People probably need significant eudaimonic pursuits to experience meaningful and lasting fulfillment.

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Leibowitz, Lisa Shoichet. "On hedonism and moral longing the Socratic critique of sophistic education in Plato's "Protagoras" /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2006.

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Yang, Yang. "Sentimental Value and Its Influence on Hedonic Adaptation." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2015. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/509.

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Sentimental value is a highly important and prevalent phenomenon in consumers’ daily life. However, sentimental value as a construct is under-researched. It has not been clearly defined in marketing and psychology. As a result, it is largely unknown what characteristics sentimental value has, and what its antecedents and consequences are. My dissertation aims to make theoretical contributions by 1) introducing the construct of sentimental value, defining sentimental value, and empirically verifying my definition; 2) examining whether sentimental value can be actively created at the stage of product acquisition, and 3) demonstrating that sentimental value is critically important for consumer happiness with well-being, because it influences the rate of hedonic adaptation to products. Building upon from prior work on philosophy, anthropology, and sociology, I define sentimental value as the non-feature-related value, derived from the associations with significant others or from the associations with special events or time in one’s life. I empirically verify this definition of sentimental value and show that it largely fits consumers’ lay understanding of sentimental value (Studies 1A and 1B). Next, I study an important consequence of sentimental value in the domain of hedonic adaptation, propose that sentimental value slows hedonic adaptation, and tests my theory in four studies. Study 2 tests the effect of sentimental value on hedonic adaptation using naturally occurring items and finds that people adapt more slowly to Christmas gifts than to Christmas purchases because the former have higher sentimental value. Studies 3A and 3B hold the items constant across conditions and replicate the slowing effect of sentimental value on hedonic adaptation. Study 4 experimentally manipulates sentimental value of an item in the laboratory and demonstrates its effect on hedonic adaptation over up to 9-month period. I then test the underlying process by showing that whereas feature-related utility decreases for all items with time, sentimental value usually does not (Studies 3-5), and that sentimental value moderates the influence of the decrement in feature-related utility on hedonic adaptation (Study 5). Consistent with our theory, I also find that the number of associations with a significant other or with a special event or time that an item carries determines the level of sentimental value and the rate of hedonic adaption. My dissertation yields theoretical implications for understanding the construct of sentimental value and its relationship with hedonic adaptation. It also yields practical implications for imbuing consumer products with sentimental value.

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des, Rosiers Gabriel. "Primary or depressive dementia : hedonic tone and memory." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338120.

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Lange, Kelly L. "The integrity of hedonic processes in Alzheimer's disease /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3159874.

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Bryan, Robin L. "Hedonic price indices for military vehicles and trailers." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104326.

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Priilaid, David A. "The hedonic valuation of South African wine brands." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5874.

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This study aims to value South African wine brands. Deploying blind and sighted versions of hedonic quality it defines (1) ‘functional’ wine brands as those with consistently higher levels of intrinsic quality as proxied by their blind tasting scores, and (2) placebo-type ‘symbolic’ wine brands as those with statistically significant positive predictive differences between their blind and sighted scores. Through a series of econometric analyses applied to 8225 wines sampled over the eight year period from 2000 through 2007, a higher proportion of functional-to-symbolic brands is notified. Bi-polar clustering is observed in both brand-classes, with positive and negative brand-effects yielding positive and negative ‘non’ brands, respectively. Such clustering extends to those brands presenting simultaneously with both functional and symbolic brand-effects. Here brands decompose into zones of either Symbolic Values (with positive placebos and weak intrinsics) or Functional Values (with negative placebos and strong intrinsics). When these zones are graphed relative to their intrinsic blind to sighted-minus-blind scores, no brands appear to occupy the middleground. Each zone is located approximately one standard deviation left and right of the grand-sample mean intrinsic score. This functional-to-symbolic typology confirms and extends the literature on brands in general (Bhat and Reddy, 1998), and wine brands in particular (Mowle and Merrilees, 2005). Two wine brand valuation techniques are subsequently presented and comparatively assessed. Each is based on the combined use of non-ordinal wine valuation models and discounted cash-flow methodologies. The first price-premium approach defines brand equity value (per bottle) as the difference between a wine’s price and a valuation of its intrinsic worth as measured by blind ratings. The second quality-premium approach defines brand equity value as the difference between a wine’s intrinsic value and (instead of price) the value of its perceived quality when sampled sighted.

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DePorter, Danielle, and Danielle DePorter. "The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Hedonic Eating." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624151.

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Background: The high availability of palatable, calorie dense and nutrient poor foods promote hedonic eating, defined as the drive to eat to obtain pleasure in the absence of an energy deficit. Poor sleep and hedonic eating, independently, drive obesity at the societal level. However, it is unknown whether the combination of sleep loss and access to palatable food synergistically increases weight gain. Objective: The purpose was to test whether chronic partial sleep deprivation by a method that increases weight gain also increases hedonic eating and exacerbates weight gain in rodents. We hypothesized that 1) type of diet, 2) preference for the diets and 3) sex would moderate the effect of sleep loss on calorie intake and weight gain in sleep deprived rodents. Subjects/Methods: Three-month old male and female Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 58 males and n = 10 females) were acclimated to hedonic diets for 7-d and then exposed to pre-recorded environmental noise (8h/d for 9-d). Body weight was measured every other day, unless mentioned otherwise. Food intake, corrected for uneaten food, was measured daily. Results: Noise exposure did not affect body weight gain and total calorie intake among male rats who had access to both a high and a low-fat diet. The effect of noise exposure on chocolate intake differed between male rats who were classified as high or low preference for chocolate. Initial preference for chocolate was greater in females compared to male rats. Conclusions: These results highlight the importance of preference and sex when investigating the effects of partial sleep deprivation on hedonic eating and obesity.

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Dalnor, Lindström Ulrica, and Carin Tjernell. "Månadsavgiftens inverkan på bostadsrätters försäljningspris." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Business Administration and Economics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4743.

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Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att utreda månadsavgiftens inverkan på bostadsrätters försäljningspris och få en indikation på hur rationellt den studerade marknaden fungerar. Den formella hypotesen är: Leder låg månadsavgift till högt försäljningspris och vice versa? Dessutom undersöks hur månadsavgiften kapitaliseras in i bostadsrätters försäljningspris.

Metod: Denna studie baseras på information om bostadsrättsförsäljningar i Gävle under år 2008. En omfattande manuell databehandling har utförts för att kunna genomföra studien. De prispåverkande faktorerna har klassificerats utifrån deras förmodande inverkan på priset. Metoden som används är den hedoniska metoden, som gör det möjligt att beskriva försäljningspriset som en funktion av ett antal faktorer. För att estimera månadsavgiftens effekt på försäljningspriset har fyra regressionsekvationer utformats och beräknats i dataprogrammet Microsoft Excel. Utifrån regressionsresultatet har en värderingsformel skapats som använts för att urskilja det avkastningskrav med vilket marknaden kapitaliserat avgiften.

Resultat & slutsats: Samtliga regressionsresultat visar att korrelationen mellan månadsavgift och försäljningspris är negativ. Det intressanta är dock hur månadsavgiften kapitaliseras in i bostadsrättens försäljningspris. Resultatet visar att avkastningen är som lägst när månadsavgiften är låg och tilltar i takt med att månadsavgiften ökar. Detta kan tala för att en fokusering på den låga månadsavgiften kan leda till för höga försäljningspriser.

Förslag till fortsatt forskning: När vi i studien har bedömt huruvida marknaden handlar rationellt eller ej har vi inte tagit hänsyn till hur köpet är finansierat av de enskilda köparna. Detta är en faktor som komplicerar bedömningen och är värt att undersöka vidare.

Uppsatsens bidrag: Studien har gett en inblick i hur månadsavgiften påverkar bostadsrätters försäljningspris. Dessutom har åskådliggjorts huruvida marknadens värdering av månadsavgiften ändras vid olika avgiftsnivåer.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to investigate the monthly fees impact on tenant-owner flats market and get an indication of how rational the studied market is. The formal hypothesis is: Does a low monthly fee lead to high selling price and vice versa? Moreover investigates how the monthly fee capitalizes into tenant-owner flats selling price.

Method: This study is based on sales of tenant-owner flats in Gävle during year 2008. An extensive manual data processing has been implemented to perform the study. The priceinfluencing factors have been classified according to their prospective impact on the price. The method used is the hedonic method, which makes it possible to describe the selling price as a function of a number of factors. To estimate monthly fees effect on the sales price, four regression equations has been designed and calculated in the computer program Microsoft Excel. Based on the regression result a valuation formula has been created and is used to identify the return of which the market has capitalized the fee.

Result & Conclusions: All regression results show that the correlation between the monthly fee and selling price are negative. What is interesting is how the monthly fee is capitalized into the tenant-owner flats selling price. The result shows that the yield is at its lowest when the monthly fee is low and increases as the monthly fee increases. This may demonstrate that a low monthly fee can lead to a high selling price.

Suggestions for future research: When we assessed whether the market is rational or not, we have not taken account of how the purchase is financed by the individual buyers. This is a factor that complicates the assessment and is worth exploring further.

Contribution of the thesis: The study has given an insight into the monthly fees affect on tenant-owner flats selling prices. In addition, we illustrate how the market's valuation of the monthly fee changes at different levels of the fees size.

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Mehnaoui, Soumia, and Youssef Mehnaoui. "The effect of market rent on condominium prices : A comparison between Stockholm and Malmö." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-266883.

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The Swedish rental market is suffering from several complications that can be derived from the utility-value-system regulating the market. A deregulation of the ineffective utility-value-system has for long been discouraged by the estimations of a market rent, commonly drawn from the pricing of condominiums. Yet, such estimations are problematic, not accounting for the market’s differences and the deregulation effect on condominium prices. The purpose of this study is to examine the overlooked aspect of how the distance of the utility-value-system to market rent affects condominium prices. This study explores the two markets of Stockholm and Malmö and their respective rental system’s proximity to market rent. The distance to market rent is an external attribute, among others, included in our constructed hedonic model which defines condominium prices. By using regression analysis, the contribution of each attribute to the condominium prices are estimated. The results of this study provide an interesting and overlooked aspect of the Swedish housing market, namely that the distance of the utility-value-system to market rent cause an increase in condominium prices. It illustrates how the greater the distance to market rent is, the greater is the excess demand of rental apartments which entails a larger increase in prices of the substitutive condominiums. Conversely, an increase in rent levels towards market rent implies a decrease in condominium prices.
Den svenska hyresmarknaden lider av flera komplikationer vilka kan härledas från det bruksvärdessystem som reglerar marknaden. En avreglering av det ineffektiva bruksvärdessystemet har länge avskräckts av uppskattningar av en marknadshyra, vilken ofta härleds från prisnivån på bostadsrätter. Sådana uppskattningar av marknadshyra är problematiska och tar inte hänsyn till marknadernas skillnader och den effekt en avreglering har på bostadsrättspriser. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka den förbisedda aspekten av hur avståndet mellan bruksvärdeshyra och marknadshyra påverkar bostadsrättspriser. Denna studie undersöker de två marknaderna Stockholm och Malmö och deras respektive hyressystems närhet till marknadshyra. Avståndet till marknadshyra är ett av många andra attribut inkluderat i vår konstruerade hedoniska modell som definierar bostadsrättspriser. Genom att använda oss av regressionsanalys beräknas den påverkan som varje attribut har på bostadsrättspriset. Resultaten av denna studie bidrar till en intressant och förbisedd aspekt av den svenska bostadsmarknaden, nämligen att avståndet från bruksvärdeshyra till marknadshyra orsakar en ökning av bostadsrättspriser. Det illustrerar att ju större avståndet till marknadshyra är, desto större är efterfrågeöverskottet på hyreslägenheter, vilket medför en större prisökning på de substitutiva bostadsrätterna. Omvänt innebär en ökning av hyresnivåerna mot en marknadshyra en minskning av bostadsrättspriserna.

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Baird, William P. "Friends with Benefits: Other Regard in Epicurean Ethics." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/94.

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Friendship and hedonism are both major components of Epicureanism. I attempt to relieve the tension that seems to follow from endorsing both of these. I argue that Epicurean friendships require valuing a friend’s well-being in the same way as one’s own and that embarking on such friendships is what David Schmidtz terms a maieutic end – one that is achieved by taking on a new set of ends. This conception fits with other-regarding concern that is espoused throughout the Epicurean texts discussing friendship and, as I argue, remains consistent with other psychological and ethical commitments of Epicureanism.

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Frösdal, Olof, and Björn Smedberg. "Hedonisk prisbildning på bostadsrätter : En tvärsnittsanalys av bostadspriserna i Stockholms län." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26404.

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Den svenska bostadsmarknaden har under en längre tid varit ett hett diskussionsämne i media. Regelbundet beskrivs den svenska bostadsmarknaden som övervärderad. Ovissheten kring var marknaden befinner sig värderingsmässigt, väcker intresse att undersöka hur en bostadsrätts olika egenskaper påverkar dess värde, alltså vad individer är beredda att betala för i en bostadsrätt. “Hur mycket är konsumenten villig att betala för olika egenskaper hos en bostadsrätt, så som: boarea, våningsplan, hiss och antal rum?” I studien utförs en empirisk tvärsnittsanalys, med observationer insamlade från och med första augusti till och med sista oktober 2014. Bostadsrätterna som är inkluderade i studien är geografiskt belägna i Stockholms innerstad (Kungsholmen, Norrmalm, Södermalm, Vasastan samt Östermalm). En bostadsrätts köpeskilling implicerar konsumentens betalningsvilja, med hjälp av regression kan individens preferenser för en bostadsrätts olika egenskaper differentieras och värderas. Resultatet av studien visar att den största påverkande egenskapen, när det gäller köpeskilling, är bostadsyta. Det går även att utläsa från regressionen att stadsdel, våningsplan och öppen spis värderas högt. Studiens resultat visar även att Vasastan eller Norrmalm den dyraste stadsdelen att bo i under given period.

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Curry, Fred. "Motivation matters a critical analysis and refutation of evolutionary arguments for psychological altruism /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1174953093.

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