hedonic

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The BLS also tries to identify price changes by controlling for improvements in product quality for a lot of goods—including computers, internet access, phone plans, and cars—through a process called hedonic price adjustment.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026

This idea of hedonic adaptation — how humans so quickly adapt to this new comfort, this new stimulus — it felt like an interesting thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 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

Participants filled out seven brief surveys per day via their smartphones regarding their hedonic consumption, distraction and satisfaction.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

The hedonic cannot, according to them, pretend to universal validity, it cannot be normative.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)