How to Use hedonic in a Sentence

hedonic

adjective

• Jiménez pointed me in the direction of something known as the hedonic treadmill.
  — Anna Codrea-Rado, refinery29.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• Without pleasure, the behaviour is no longer a hedonic one.
  — Desiree Kozlowski, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
• After all, there are those who choose to take drugs that blot out any chance of meaning and authenticity, hoping to achieve hedonic bliss.
  — Paul Bloom, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• The caffeinated group also were more likely to choose high-hedonic products.
  — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• The hedonic concept dates back to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristippus of Cyrene, who argued that the ultimate goal of life ought to be to maximize pleasure.
  — Gregory Grieve, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
• At a time of public health and financial challenges, the mere mention of hedonic pleasures raises eyebrows.
  — Sona Bahadur, Quartz India, 17 Sep. 2020
• The scientists were interested in the activation of the striatum, an area rich in dopamine neurons and involved in the processing of hedonic rewards.
  — Jonah Lehrer, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2010
• Rather than a raunchy account of hedonic excess, the real drama resides in Simon’s struggle to maintain his creative mojo.
  — Steve Almond, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
• Taking time to do this will suddenly take you away from making impulsive purchases or trying to keep up with neighbors or friends (the hedonic treadmill).
  — Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Herlihy suggests that breaking up Live Nation could unleash market forces to fix the hedonic horror.
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Instead, their hedonic evaluation of the vacation is best explained by a combination of how good or bad the vacation was at its peak, and how good or bad the vacation was at its end.
  — Aaron M. Sackett, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2020
• Some scientists hope that a better understanding of the hedonic aspects of food choice can help in battling the obesity epidemic.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2019
• The Treadmill Is running on the hedonic career treadmill leaving you breathless and unsatisfied?
  — Terry Powell, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Obsessing over wealth is like being on a hedonic treadmill – continuously running to stay in the same emotional place.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2010
• The research ultimately revealed that the worms, like humans, engage in hedonic feeding — a phenomenon more commonly known as the munchies.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• All are polished, even understated—much more laid-back than their creator—but also hedonic, complex enough to enrapture the connoisseur and fleshy enough to appeal to the sensualist.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2015
• People bob along from one hedonic act to the next, never even questioning the sustainability of their life choices, much less grasping that their lives are morally and spiritually empty.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 June 2021
• Istvan, by contrast, had come to transhumanism from a more secular, hedonic background.
  — Mark O’Connell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
• But that process, known as hedonic adjustment, most commonly applies to physical objects.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2021
• The cautionary word, however, is that humans are prone to what’s called hedonic adaptation, which basically translates to a tendency to revert back to our old – and in this case, unappreciative – ways.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
• Perhaps a decline in hedonic happiness lies behind the upsurge in support for populists, swamping the rise in evaluative happiness.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• The hedonic treadmill, also called human adaptation, is the natural tendency for humans to return to a baseline level of happiness regardless of our circumstances.
  — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• Current popular culture centers on hedonic happiness, which values an outgoing, social, joyous view of life.
  — Gregory Grieve, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
• Another technical term for this is 'hedonic consumption'.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• Worse, that undermeasured hedonic cost decline driven by technology has allowed price increases to sneak in elsewhere without triggering classic inflation fears.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 3 June 2018
• Three concern positive indicators of well-being: eudaemonic happiness (having a sense of meaning), hedonic happiness (joy in the moment) and relationships.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2019
• The odorous effluents were assigned 34 characteristic odors in three hedonic categories (neutral, pleasant and unpleasant).
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2012
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics recognizes this reality and incorporates hedonic improvements into its calculus to account for it.
  — Ike Brannon, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• Additionally, increased levels of self-enhancement explained the effect of meditation on higher well-being (both hedonic and eudeamonic).
  — Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American, 4 Jan. 2021
• Hancock and his team found that more social media use was associated slightly with higher depression and anxiety (though not loneliness) and more strongly associated with relationship benefits (though not eudaemonic or hedonic well-being).
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2019

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