Michel Cabanac

The pleasure of aggressiveness among inmates in preventive and longTerm detention (2008)

Cabanac, Michel, Ramirez, J. Martin, Millana Cuevas, Luis Clemente, Toldos Romero, María Paz, Bonniot-Cabanac, M.Claude

To a large degree, humans use pleasure (hedonicity) maximization to guide decision making, thereby optimizing their behaviour, as shown by research on either sensory or purely mental pleasure (e.g.,...

Decision making: rational or hedonic? (2007)

Cabanac, Michel, Bonniot-Cabanac, Marie-Claude

Abstract Three experiments studied the hedonicity of decision making. Participants rated their pleasure/displeasure while reading item-sentences describing political and social problems followed by...

Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss (2007)

Paradis, Sebastien, Ramirez, J. Martin, Cabanac, Michel

Violence and aggressiveness are social concerns. Also, at a time of rising prevalence of obesity, many people tend to control their body weight through dieting. We analyzed the impact of weight loss...

Placer asociado con la conducta agresiva en una muestra de reclusos españoles en prisión preventiva (2006)

Millana Cuevas, Luis Clemente, Cabanac, Michel, Toldos Romero, María Paz, Bonniot-Cabanac, M.Claude, Ramirez, J. Martin

La maximización del placer (hedonismo) es un mecanismo importante en la toma de decisiones humanas, tal y como se ha demostrado tanto para el placer sensitivo como para el placer puramente mental....

Diet induced weight loss accelerates onset of negative alliesthesia in obese women (2005)

Frankham, Patrick, Gosselin, Caroline, Cabanac, Michel

Abstract Background The physiological and behavioral responses to hypocaloric diet are to increase energy intake to defend a steady body weight. We utilized the method of "negative alliesthesia" for...

Can aggression provide pleasure? (2005)

Ramirez, J. Martin, Bonniot-Cabanac, Marie-Claude, Cabanac, Michel

We investigated the pleasurability of aggressive behavioral decisions. Four questionnaires (on hedonicity, decisión making, justification of aggression, and impulsiveness) were given to 50...

Pleasure in decision-making situations (2002)

Cabanac, Michel, Guillaume, Jacqueline, Balasko, Marta, Fleury, Adriana

Abstract Background This study explores the role of pleasure in decision making. Results In Experiment 1, 12 subjects were presented with a questionnaire containing 46 items taken from the...

The Fifth Influence (1999)

Cabanac, Michel, Cabanac, Remi A., Hammel, Harold T.

This article is a theoretical consideration on the role of sensory pleasure and mental joy as optimizers of behavior. It ends with an axiomatic proposal. When they compare the human body to its...

The Fifth Influence (1999)

Cabanac, Michel, Cabanac, Remi A., Hammel, Harold T.

This article is a theoretical consideration on the role of sensory pleasure and mental joy as optimizers of behavior. It ends with an axiomatic proposal. When they compare the human body to its...

The Fifth Influence (1999)

Cabanac, Michel, Cabanac, Remi A., Hammel, Harold T.

This article is a theoretical consideration on the role of sensory pleasure and mental joy as optimizers of behavior. It ends with an axiomatic proposal. When they compare the human body to its...

Decision making: rational or hedonic?

Cabanac, Michel, Bonniot-Cabanac, Marie-Claude

Three experiments studied the hedonicity of decision making. Participants rated their pleasure/displeasure while reading item-sentences describing political and social problems followed by different...