The Saturday interview: Toby Ord and Bernadette Young on the joy of giving Ord refers to the " hedonic treadmill" whereby people expend more and more resources to maintain the same level of satisfaction, and to evidence that people get more happiness from spending money on other people than buying things for themselves. Study: Doing Good Makes you Feel Good | Impact Lab To find out, he and his colleagues asked a group of 65 undergraduates to complete an online survey each day for three weeks that assessed how times they participated in hedonic, or pleasure-seeking behaviours, versus meaningful activities, such as helping others, listening to friends’ problems and/or pursuing one’s life goals.
adjective Of or relating to the hedonists or to hedonismįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. adjective Pursuing pleasure in a devoted manner. adjective a sect that placed the highest good in the gratification of the senses, - called also Cyrenaic sect, (which see), and School of Aristippus.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. adjective Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect. Of the nature of hedonism regarding one's own enjoyment as the chief good.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 
Pertaining to or consisting in pleasure. adjective Of or relating to hedonism or hedonists. adjective Of, relating to, or marked by pleasure. From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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