Candles shouldn't be overlooked as a pleasant source of extra light.
In extreme cases, customers may avoid aesthetically unacceptable but otherwise safe drinking water in favour of more pleasant but potentially unsafe source (WHO 2011).
This enhances the explanatory and predictive significance of happiness, and more importantly its desirability: happiness on this view is not merely pleasant, but a major source of pleasure and other good outcomes (Fredrickson 2004, Lyubomirsky, King et al. 2005).
Just about every seat in the auditorium was taken, one of them by Edwin Meese, Attorney General under President Reagan, who was in the front row, and whose phone was almost certainly the source of a pleasant symphonic ringtone that briefly intruded upon the proceedings.
Those who knew of Australia at all thought of it as a source of cheap, pleasant wines, notably $5 or $6 Chardonnays you could slosh down easily.
Sugar is consumed because it tastes pleasant and is a ready source of energy that can be used by the body.
Each person has an innate propensity to move away from any source of an unpleasant sensation be it mental or physical, and to move closer to any source of a pleasant sensation be it mental or physical.
Second, low reward sensitivity may be related to excessive stimulation seeking (i.e., thrill- and sensation seeking) and egocentrically driven behavior (Quay 1988) as reaction to difficulties achieving a pleasant level of stimulation through regular sources (Matthys et al. 2013).
It substitutes banality for analysis; it's "yet another genre of spectatorial appreciation, an exercise in character recognition, a reliable source of edification and pleasant uplift".
Within the PTSD group, an arousal effect (mean of 60 to 110 ms) was found, showing higher global field power in source space in the pleasant and unpleasant compared to the neutral conditions.
