The Routledge handbook of economic theology

Table of Contents: “…Worley 24.Branding and Marketing Russ Belk25.Hedonism and AsceticismColin Campbell 26.Leadership Peter Simpson27.Intellectual Property and Creativity Gabriel J. …”
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The moral life : an introductory reader in ethics and literature by Pojman, Louis P., Vaughn, Lewis

Table of Contents: “…Voltaire/The good Brahmin ; Epicurus/Hedonism ; Albert Camus/Life is absurd ; Viktor Frankl/The human search for meaning : reflections on Auschwitz ; John Messerly/The ascent of meaning ; Bertrand Russell/Reflections on suffering ; Richard Taylor/The meaning of life -- Part IV: Applied ethics : moral problems. 10. …”

Social Media in the Marketing Context : a State of the Art Analysis and Future Directions. by Plume, Cherniece J.

Table of Contents: “…5.2 Differences Between the Self-Construals5.2.1 Need for Uniqueness; 5.2.2 Communities and the "Self"; 5.2.3 Hedonic and Utilitarian Motivations; 5.3 Self-Construals in the New Marketing Environment; 5.4 Discussion and Concluding Points; References; 6 Synthesis and Discussion of Research; 6.1 Current Research; 6.2 Developing Research; 6.3 Methods and Samples; 6.4 Gaps and Areas for Future Research; References; 7 Conclusion; Index; Back Cover.…”
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Soul, self, and society : the new morality and the modern state by Rubin, Edward L., 1948-

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Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services : Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches

Table of Contents: “…Gordon and Todd van Goethem -- Pricing at the on-ramp to the internet : price indices for ISPs during the 1990s / Greg Stranger and Shane Greenstein -- Different approaches to estimating Hedonic indexes / Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver -- Price indexes for microsoft's personal computer software products / Jaison R. …”
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The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Models and Theories by Carducci, Bernardo J.

Table of Contents: “…Major Contribution: The Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness to Experience Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) -- Major Contribution: Since the NEO-PI-R and the NEO-FFI -- Acknowledgments and Awards -- Conclusion: Personality and Individual Differences -- See Also -- References -- Further Reading -- Ed Diener -- Personal Life -- Early Research Career: Deindividuation -- Subjective Well-Being -- Theories and Measurement of Well-being -- Personality and Well-being -- Income and Well-being -- Cultural Influences on Well-being -- Hedonic Adaptation -- Future Work -- Awards and Service…”
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The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Set by Carducci, Bernardo J.

Table of Contents: “…Major Contribution: The Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness to Experience Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) -- Major Contribution: Since the NEO-PI-R and the NEO-FFI -- Acknowledgments and Awards -- Conclusion: Personality and Individual Differences -- See Also -- References -- Further Reading -- Ed Diener -- Personal Life -- Early Research Career: Deindividuation -- Subjective Well-Being -- Theories and Measurement of Well-being -- Personality and Well-being -- Income and Well-being -- Cultural Influences on Well-being -- Hedonic Adaptation -- Future Work -- Awards and Service…”
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Horizontal equity, uncertainty, and economic well-being

Table of Contents: “…Newhouse -- The valuation of environmental risks using hedonic wage models / V. Kerry Smith and Carol C.S. …”
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Sustainability the Environment and Urbanisation. by Pugh, Cedric

Table of Contents: “…Social exclusion and social sustainabilitySclerosis in the static city; Sclerosis in the dynamic city; Conclusion; 7 Sustainability and Methodologies of Environmental Assessment for Cities; Environmental impact of cities; Assessment techniques; Strategic environmental assessment (SEA); Project level environmental impact assessment; Environmental audit (EA); Cost-benefit analysis (CBA); Hedonic pricing; The travel cost method; The contingent valuation method (CVM); Pricing methods; Overall perspective on environmental assessment; Conclusion; 8 Conclusions.…”
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Advances in hospitality and leisure.

Table of Contents: “…Value (Co)Creation and Quality-of-Life Outcomes of On-Site and Memorable Tourist ExperiencesValue for the Consumer as an Outcome of the On-Site Tourist Experience; Experiencing the 'Other', Novelty, and Authenticity; Hedonic Happiness; Flow; Values Based on Intellectual, Emotional, and Social Needs; Value for the Consumer as an Outcome of the Memorable Experience; Learning; Post-Visit Tourist Experience through Memory Recall; Subjective Well-Being (Mindfulness, Personal Development); Eudaimonia; Life Satisfaction; Value for the Company: On-Site Experiences; Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM).…”
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Emotions, Advertising and Consumer Choice. by Hansen, Flemming

Table of Contents: “…Feelings in Consumer Behaviour Research and Advertising""; ""1. Hedonic Consumption and Feelings/Emotions""; ""2. …”
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Concise Encyclopedia of Advertising. by Stevens, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…Executional FrameworkExpert Authority; External Search; Family Brand; Family Life Cycle; Fantasy Execution; Fear Appeal; Federal Communications Commission; Federal Trade Commission; Flanker Brand; Flighting Schedule (Advertising Campaign); Focus Group; Food and Drug Administration; Freestanding Insert; Frequency; Gatekeeper; Generation X; Generic Message Strategy; Geodemographic Segmentation; Geographic Segmentation; Globally Integrated Marketing Communications; Green Marketing; Gross Impressions; Gross Rating Points; Hedonic Experiential Model; Heredity and Home Environment.…”
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Management Stripped Bare : What They Don't Teach You at Business School. by Owen, Jo

Table of Contents: “…; Financial accounting: the road to irrelevance; Flat organizations, flat results; Flattery; Forecasting and experts; Frequent flying; G; Global teams; Glory and lies: the annual report; Grass is greener on the other side of the hill; Guarantees: promises and lies; H; Head office: the beauty and the beast; Hedonic adaptation and slavery; Herd instincts; Hiring and firing; The history of management; Honest feedback.…”
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Commercial property valuation : methods and case studies by Morri, Giacomo, 1975-, Benedetto, Paolo, 1984-

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Multiple-Use Management : the Economics of Public Forestlands. by Bowes, Michael D.

Table of Contents: “…Summary and Conclusions; Notes; 6 Valuing Recreational Quality: Hedonic Pricing; 1. Introduction; 2. Measuring Benefits of Changes in Site Attributes.…”
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Anonymous art at auction : the reception of early Flemish paintings in the Western art market (1946-2015) by Radermecker, Anne-Sophie

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- List of Figures, Tables, and Graphs -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Power of the Artist's Name -- 1.1 The Artist's Name and Its Attributes -- 1.2 Attributionism or a "History of the Art of Names" -- 1.3 The Relationship between the Artist's Name and the Work's Cultural and Economic Value -- 1.4 The Cognitive Impact of the Artist's Name -- 1.5 The Artist's Name as Brand Name -- 1.6 The Monetary Weight of the Artist's Name -- 2 Anonymity and Flemish Painting -- 2.1 The Painting of the Southern Low Countries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- 2.2 Pictures by and for the Market -- 2.3 Between Identity and Anonymity: The Duality of Flemish Painting -- 2.4 A School and Artists Subject to Changing Preferences -- 2.5 A Complex Authentication Process -- 2.6 The Advent of Technical Art History and the Relativity of Authorship -- 2.7 Perception of the Anonymity of Flemish Paintings -- 2.8 Identification Strategies in Use in the Market for Flemish Paintings -- 3 Methodological Considerations -- 3.1 Chronological and Geographical Framework -- 3.2 Sources and Data -- 3.3 Hedonic Regression -- 3.4 Research Limits -- 3.5 Description of the Database -- 4 Empirical Analysis of the Market for Flemish Paintings -- 4.1 Price Index (1946-2015) -- 4.2 The Main Price Determinants of the Market for Flemish Paintings -- 4.3 Price Indices by Identification Strategy.…”
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From neighborhoods to nations : the economics of social interactions by Ioannides, Yannis Menelaos

Table of Contents: “…2.8 Spatial Econometrics Models as Social Interactions Models2.9 Social Learning in Urban Settings; 2.10 Conclusions; 2.11 Highlights of the Literature and Further Study; 2.12 Appendix: Basic Facts of Graph and Network Theory for Social Network Modeling; 2.13 Appendix: Survey of Micro Data Sources with Rich Contextual Information; Chapter 3 Location Decisions of Individuals and Social Interactions; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Aspatial Models of Location with Social Interactions; 3.3 An Exact Solution for Hedonic Prices in a Model of Sorting.…”
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The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of positive psychological interventions

Table of Contents: “…Kahler -- Special considerations -- Making happiness last : using the hedonic adaptation model to extend the success of positive interventions / Katherine Jacobs Bao and Sonja Lyubomirsky -- Person-activity fit in positive psychology interventions / Stephen M. …”
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The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy : Rock, Paper, Scissors, Aristotle, Locke

Table of Contents: “…The Wheaton OccurrencesThe Theodicy Corollary; Beyond Good and Evil Wil--or, the Wrath of Sheldon; The Name-Calling and Line-Cutting Topologies; The Comic Book Paradigm; The Inscrutability Factor; Chapter 6: Do We Need a Roommate Agreement?; The Giant "Hedon" Collider; The Egoism Polarization; The Social Contract Instability; The Aristotelian Virtue Vortex; The Dennis Kim Conundrum; Part Three: "Perhaps You Mean A Different Thing Than I Do When You Say 'Science'"; Chapter 7: Getting Fundamental about Doing Physics in The Big Bang Theory; Studies in Sheldonology; A Unified Theory of Sheldon?…”
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Sustainability assessment : a rating system framework for best practices : with a theoretical application to the surface mining recovery process for the development and operations... by Poveda, C. A. (Cesar A.)

Table of Contents: “…Contingent Valuation Method -- 1.5.7. Hedonic Pricing Method -- 1.5.8. Multi-Criteria Analysis -- 1.5.9. …”
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Product innovation toolbox : a field guide to consumer understanding and research

Table of Contents: “…; 3.7 Innovation in scaling intensities and emotions; 3.8 Scaling intensities; 3.9 Scaling emotions (hedonics); 3.10 Final remarks; References; 4 Designing the Research Model; 4.1 Factors influencing product innovation4.2 Setting up a successful product innovation program; 4.3 Current approach to new product development; 4.4 Iterative qualitative-quantitative research model; References; 5 What You Must Look For: Finding High Potential Insights; 5.1 What is an insight?…”
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Neuropsychology of Smell and Taste. by Martin, G. Neil

Table of Contents: “…4.6 Other methodological issues4.7 Individual differences; 4.7.1 Age; 4.7.2 Sex; 4.8 OEPs and valence; 4.9 OEPs and lateralization; 4.10 Olfactory disorders; 4.11 Psychological effects on the OEP; 4.12 Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and olfaction; 4.13 Olfaction and neuroimaging; 4.14 Neuroimaging and odour perception; 4.15 Neuroimaging and valence/hedonic response; 4.16 Neuroimaging and trigeminal stimulation; 4.17 Neuroimaging and 'biologically significant' odours; 4.18 Neuroimaging and imagining odour; 4.19 Cognitive variables: making decisions about, and remembering, odour…”
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Quantitative sensory analysis : psychophysics, models and intelligent design by Lawless, Harry T.

Table of Contents: “…Appendix 1.A Relationship of Proportions, Areas Under the Normal Distribution, and Z -ScoresAppendix 1.B Worked Example: Fitting a Logistic Function to Threshold Data; References; 2 Psychophysics II: Scaling and Psychophysical Functions; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 History: Cramer, Bernoulli, Weber, and Fechner; 2.3 Partition Scales and Categories; 2.4 Magnitude Estimation and the Power Law; 2.4.1 The Method Evolves; 2.4.2 The Power Law and the Method Become Linked; 2.4.3 Ratio Scales for Hedonics?; 2.5 Cross-Modality Matching; Attempts at Validation; 2.5.1 Magnitude Production.…”
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Cognitive finance : behavioral strategies of spending, saving and investing by Otto, Philipp Erik

Table of Contents: “…BEHAVIORAL FINANCE; 1.3.1. Hedonics of Spending Strategies ; 1.3.2. Mental Accounting and Self-Control in Saving Strategies.…”
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Obesity prevention : the role of brain and society on individual behavior

Table of Contents: “…Wong [and others] -- Characterizing the homeostatic and hedonic markers of the susceptible phenotype / John Blundell [and others] -- The carnivore connection: cross-population differences in the prevalence of genes producing insulin resistance / Stephen Colagiuri, Scott Dickinson and Jennie Brand-Miller -- Neuroanatomical correlates of hunger and satiaty in lean and obese individuals / Angelo Del Parigi -- Neuroendocrine stress response and its impact on eating behavior and body weight / Beth M. …”
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Shopping Tourism, Retailing and Leisure. by Timothy, Dallen J.

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Three Faces of Desire. by Schroeder, Timothy

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Law and happiness

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The Economics of Managing Crop Diversity On-farm : Case studies from the Genetic Resources Policy Initiative. by Wale, Edilegnaw

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