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Dipole of pain and pleasure and use of mental accounting to hedonic equilibrium

The current paper hypothesizes that humans try to reduce not only the pain but also pleasure (psychological, not physical) resulting due to economic losses, thereby trying to maintain a hedonic equilbrium. The researchers use an analogy of dipole in physics to express the hypothesis. While mitigatio...

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Main Author: Panchal, Shirish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
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245 |a Dipole of pain and pleasure and use of mental accounting to hedonic equilibrium  |c Panchal, Shirish. 
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520 |a The current paper hypothesizes that humans try to reduce not only the pain but also pleasure (psychological, not physical) resulting due to economic losses, thereby trying to maintain a hedonic equilbrium. The researchers use an analogy of dipole in physics to express the hypothesis. While mitigation of pain is understood, reduction of pleasure is interesting to understand. Neurobiology may present its answer to this. Pain and pleasure when experienced are likely to cause hyper activity in neural networks. This consumes more energy, which may not be sustainable by the brain. Hence people ma try to reach equilibrium to conserve the limited energy of the brain. The research discusses unique ability of mind to strategize through thoughts for reaching the importance of loss aversion and segregation of losses. 
650 |a Hedonic Efficiency 
650 |a Segragration Of Gains And Losses 
650 |a Loss Aversion 
650 |a Need To Survive 
650 |a Prospect Theory 
650 |a Pseudo-Rationality 
650 |a Losses 
650 |a Dipole, Pain, Pleasure, Gains 
650 |a Hedonic Equilibrium 
650 |a Mental Accounting 
773 |a Voice of Research: An International Journal  |d September 
999 |c 41926  |d 41926