To be happy and to know it: The experience and meta- awareness of pleasure

TitleTo be happy and to know it: The experience and meta- awareness of pleasure
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsSchooler J.W., Mauss I.B.
Book TitlePleasures of the Brain
Chapter14
Pagination244- 254
PublisherOxford University Press
CityBerridge & M. Kringlebach
Abstract

Many of the strands of what humans know about their own pleasure are pulled together in this chapter. The authors describe the psychological research on the experience and meta-awareness of pleasure. They show how many of our most pleasurable experiences occur with little meta-awareness of the fact that we are experiencing pleasure and how conscious attention to pleasure can distort or even destroy the underlying hedonic process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)