The influence of pleasure/displeasure on the decision-making process was already proposed for humans [ 7, 18], and for animals [ 37, 38], because a decision is pleasant as such when it permits to escape unpleasant conflicts of motivations [ 39].
Such a correlation of hedonicity with rationality supports the contention that rational decisions provide pleasant experiences [ 29] even if less pleasant than those of spontaneous decisions.
As much as it was literally the last thing that anybody wanted to hear on a pleasant Sunday afternoon, Michael Douglas's decision to announce that his throat cancer was caused by – and possibly cured by – cunnilingus has led to a flood of discussion on the subject.
"He was, as usual, quite pleasant, though quite firm in his decision," Dr. Carlson said.
Furthermore, Charlotte could be a mistake – even though it seems to be a more pleasant place to visit than Tampa – because the decision has angered unions.
A deep encoding task (Craik, 2002), which involved a subjective decision on whether each stimulus was pleasant or unpleasant, using a joystick, was performed.
"It's not a pleasant day when you have to make a conscious decision to stop doing world-class, forefront research," said Dr. Edward J. Weiler, the associate administrator for science.
Whatever Iran's final decision, he said, it "won't be very pleasant to the United States.
While it wasn't exactly pleasant, I'm grateful to the psychiatrist who made that decision.
So they end up having pleasant meetings, exchanging impressions, and in the end making a decision based on relatively little data.
