Search results for "Pleasure"

Feeding children: how to make the healthy choice the happy choice?

2017

Hedonic message or nutritional message: Which one works?

2019

Eating is not just about incorporating foods or nutrients. Eating or feeding is both a symbolic and social act that is part of a family, a history and a society. This is an essential act which contributes to social identity and to alterity, and which is a vector of pleasure and commensality. However, eating becomes a source of worries because of the conflicting messages and unrealistic injunctions broadcasted through paper press and Internet web sites that lead to misunderstandings and confusions in the mind of the eaters. Moreover, the pleasure of eating is demonized and stigmatized in favor of rational messages highlighting the nutritional values of "healthy" foods to be favored. However,…

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Graffiti

2020

Emotions play an essential role in aesthetic and art experience. Graffiti is an example of urban visual communication, and it can also be understood as a form of art. Like other works of art, graffiti can evoke different aesthetic emotions in its audiences, such as pleasure, wonder, interest and pride but also disinterest, disappointment or embarrassment, and even anger and disgust—further impacting, for example, how they value this art form. However, few studies have explored what kinds of emotions people feel when they appraise graffiti. This chapter discusses emotions in graffiti using examples from participant interviews in the Purkutaide study. Interview quotes are assessed against the…

Constituents of music and visual-art related pleasure : A critical integrative literature review

2017

Redonner l’envie de manger aux personnes âgées en institution : impact de quatre facteurs environnementaux sur la prise alimentaire et le plaisir lié…

2012

Comme l’ont montré plusieurs travaux, l’entrée en Etablissement d’Hébergement pour Personnes Agées Dépendantes (EHPAD) s’accompagne d’une augmentation du risque de dénutrition (HAS, 2007 ; Sulmont-Rossé et al., 2012). Parmi les facteurs susceptibles d’affecter la prise alimentaire, il a été montré que l’environnement qui entoure le repas (de l’assiette à l’ambiance générale) contribuait fortement à l’appétit et à la prise alimentaire des résidents d’EHPAD (Nieuwenhuizen et al. 2009 ; Nijs et al. 2009). De fait, quatre études ont montré qu’une amélioration globale de l’environnement (changement de mobilier, décoration de la salle à manger, réorganisation du personnel…) pouvait entrainer une …

Multi-Destination Trips and Tourism Statistics: Empirical Evidences in Sicily

2012

Abstract The knowledge of the actual magnitude and main features of tourism flows in a given destination is an essential prerequisite for the evaluation of tourism impacts and externalities. Indeed, many pleasure trips are often characterized by the visit to more than a single destination. Although the topic is well-documented in literature, the empirical results are limited to a few pioneering studies. The lack may be attributable to the failure of tourism organizations to collect data on multi-destination trip behaviour. This can be seen, for example, in the system of European statistics on tourism (according to the Council Directive 95/57 EC), where information on the average number of v…

How Can Secure Websites Improve Buying Intention?

2014

A conceptual model is proposed to show 3 effects of augmenting security perceptions (more pleasure, less perceived risk and higher trust) in order to improve buying intention. The role of usability in reinforcing these direct and indirect security effects has also been tested. This study examines the reinforcement of previous relationships in highly usable contexts. To test this, a fictitious website was designed for a nonexistent clothing company directed at the segment of middle class consumers. Two blocks of changes were made to alter website usability: one concerning website speed and the other related to ease of use. Results for a study sample of 170 respondents show that in usable con…

Emotions in segmentation

2004

Abstract This paper presents an empirical study into tourist segmentation based on consumption emotions evoked by the enjoyment of leisure and tourism services. The research was conducted with 400 tourists visiting attractions. Taking as a basis the bidimensional approach to emotions—pleasure and arousal dimensions—the results provide support for the suitability of emotions as a segmentation variable. Those experiencing greater pleasure and arousal showed an increased level of satisfaction as well as more favorable behavioral intentions, meaning loyalty and willingness to pay more. Among the recommendations directed towards service organizations is the incorporation of affective variables i…

Mechanisms involved in the control of feeding behavior in relation to food flavor

2016

Revue; IntroductionIntake is one of the most essential behaviors, since human beings, like any living organism, require adequate nutrients for their survival. Ingestive behavior is controlled to maintain energy balance by peripheral and central mechanisms. When physiological needs are not being met, they will lead to motivation. Thus, being hungry will motivate us to find food, and the motivation will cease when needs are met. Ingestive behavior is thus initially due to a need related to internal signals (Fig. 10.1), in this case, hunger (physiological need) and appetite (urge to eat a food from which we expect pleasure and satisfaction). Sensory (visual, olfactory and, to a lesser extent, …

Dissident bodies: bodies in resistance from art and feminism

2017

Resumen A lo largo de este artículo pretendemos mostrar cómo diferentes mujeres artistas han utilizado su cuerpo como un lienzo de expresión. Sus cuerpos disidentes, abiertos y llevados al extremo serán sujeto de representación y de autoafirmación, a través de los cuales empoderarse y resistir frente a las consideradas verdades absolutas patriarcales, según las cuales, las mujeres han sido representadas como objetos de placer para la miradas masculinas. Abstract Throughout this article we intend to show how different women artists have used their body as a canvas of expression. Their dissident bodies, opened and taken to the extreme, will be subject of representation and self-affirmation, t…