For the Considered Pleasurable group, heart rate increased as participants experienced heightened pleasure states an average of 5.5 beats per minute (BPM; σ = 9.4) or 340% of its increase from baseline as pleasure ratings increased from WE-neutral to WE-LP (p<.001).
There's no pleasurable middle ground.
Reciting poetry off by heart is indeed a very pleasurable activity – for the reciter.
As within-excerpt ratings progressed from neutral to low pleasure, we observed significant increases in heart rate and respiration, and decreases in temperature and BVP amplitude, but only for those who considered the music pleasurable.
In 2016 Microsoft patented a "Mood Shirt," a garment embedded with soft-cell circuitry that responds to heart rate and body temperature with pleasurable warmth or vibrations to enhance the wearer's mood.
Immediately your heart flutters as your brain release pleasurable endorphins at the promise of bargain shopping, aka "Retail Therapy".
Having suffered from ill health for a number of years (cancer and, more recently, a stroke), he was well known for his pleasurable excesses, and his father, Kim Il Sung, also died of a heart attack.
We toss the moment to the fiction writers: one school will find a sharp note of anguish in the tableau of the boy and the dog and the shattered, raging idol, another may tinker with the coldly pleasurable excitement that the young are said to derive from the heart of calamity.
Previous studies had demonstrated that chills are subjectively described as pleasurable [6], [20], [27], and their occurrence generally corresponds with increases in heart rate and electrodermal activity [8], [20], [29], [30].
That mood kept up throughout the concert a pleasurable tension between the avant-garde of the sixties, which we all knew by heart, and the artistry of Cale and his acolytes now.
