The heavy-tailed valence hypothesis: the human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it

Published on May 13, 2026 4:06 PM GMTThis is a linkpost for The heavy-tailed valence hypothesis: the human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it by Andrés Gómez-Emilsson and Chris Percy, which was published in Frontiers in Psychology on 16 November 2023. The abstract is below. Relatedly, I liked the posts Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak Experiences Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering by Andrés, and Rem...