HC Work hard, play hard. Neuropsychological correlates and behavioral implications of hedonic compensation.

HC 努力工作，尽情玩耍。

• 批准号: 396787447
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Lotte van Dillen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Sozialpsycholgie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/396787447?language=en
• 关键词: HC; Work; hard; play; hard.

People pay less and less attention to their meals and often eat while watching TV, while driving, or while monitoring their computers. At the same time, foods and drinks have become sweeter, saltier, and fatter over the past decades. We argue that these are not independent trends. Engaging in activities requires mental capacity. This capacity is limited, leaving less room for processing of sensory information such as taste. We posit that mental load, induced by concurrent tasks or concerns, interferes with reward processing from consumption. Because people strive to obtain pleasure from the goods they consume, they employ compensatory behaviors to up-regulate hedonic value. We advance a new framework to understand this phenomenon, which we label hedonic compensation. We will integrate lab-based behavioral neuroscience experiments with experience sampling studies in the field. By linking neural reward responses to sweet substances with consumption, we examine how reduced hedonic processing under mental load leads to compensation. By extending our findings to other consumption domains, and to the real world, we study the general nature of hedonic compensation. In our project, we combine the expertise of two research labs to gain more insight in the relationship between mental capacity, hedonic experience, and consumption, and in the problems resulting from an imbalance between these factors. This, in turn, may lead to new tools to help people live a fulfilling and healthy life.

人们越来越不注意吃饭，常常一边看电视、一边开车、一边监控电脑。与此同时，在过去的几十年里，食物和饮料变得更甜、更咸、更油腻。我们认为这些不是独立的趋势。从事活动需要心理能力。这种能力是有限的，为处理味道等感官信息留下的空间较小。我们假设并发任务或关注引起的精神负荷会干扰消费的奖励处理。因为人们努力从他们消费的商品中获得快乐，所以他们采用补偿行为来上调享乐价值。我们提出了一个新的框架来理解这种现象，我们将其称为享乐补偿。我们将把基于实验室的行为神经科学实验与现场经验抽样研究相结合。通过将对甜味物质的神经奖励反应与消费联系起来，我们研究了精神负荷下享乐处理的减少如何导致补偿。通过将我们的研究结果扩展到其他消费领域和现实世界，我们研究了享乐补偿的一般性质。在我们的项目中，我们结合了两个研究实验室的专业知识，以更深入地了解心理能力、享乐体验和消费之间的关系，以及这些因素之间不平衡所导致的问题。反过来，这可能会带来新的工具来帮助人们过上充实而健康的生活。