246 Pages
by
Psychology Press
246 Pages
by
Psychology Press
224 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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A study of hedonism could conceivably operate on a massive scale. This book, however, concentrates specifically on the hedonics of taste. The editor notes some important reasons for limiting the argument in this manner. First of all, this is an area of hedonics in which a handful of experimenters continued to do research during a period when hedonism might have been lost altogether. Secondly, the... Read more
Contents: R.C. Bolles, Hedonism. L.M. Bartoshuk, Taste, Smell, and Pleasure. D.A. Booth, Learned Ingestive Motivation and the Pleasures of the Palate. A. Sclafani, The Hedonics of Sugar and Starch. J. Schulkin, Hedonic Consequences of Salt Hunger. R. Mehiel, Hedonic-Shift Conditioning with Calories. E.D. Capaldi, Hunger and the Learning of Flavor Preferences. I.L. Bernstein, Development of Taste Preferences. G.K. Beauchamp, J.R. Mason, Comparative Hedonics of Taste. S.R. Sunday, K.A. Halmi, Taste Hedonics in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. D.A. Zellner, How Foods Get to be Liked: Some General Mechanisms and Some Special Cases.
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University of Washington.
"...this volume provides a splendid state-of-the-science review of research on taste preferences."
—American Scientist"...the book provides a substantial postingestive load of information, enough to condition a preference for further reading..."
—Contemporary Psychology
