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

This 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...