hedonic

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He explained that to younger people like his students, collecting and renting DVDs is a way “to be able to slow down and get off this hedonic treadmill of ‘where’s my next stimulus coming from.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Psychologists differentiate between two aspects of happiness: "hedonic wellbeing," related to emotional experiences, and "eudemonic wellbeing," which concerns meaning and purpose in life.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

The study looked at how distraction affects "hedonic consumption," or buying and using products and experiences because they make us feel good and not necessarily because we need them.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

Ahrens said that what I had described was hedonic happiness: happiness from pleasure.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

It is not true that we inevitably act along the line of least hedonic resistance, that pain necessarily veers us off and pleasure irresistibly attracts.

From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant