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Alliesthesia

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Alliesthesia is a psychophysiological phenomenon describing how the pleasure or displeasure a person experiences from a stimulus depends on the internal state of their body at the time. The French physiologist Michel Cabanac first described the phenomenon, publishing his initial work in 1968 and following it with further studies in journals including Nature in 1970 and Science in 1971.

Facts
Core Claim
describes the dependence of perceived pleasure or displeasure of stimuli on the internal state of an organism 1
First Described Year
1968 1
Classification
Type of Phenomenon
Perceptual Phenomenon 1
Sources
1. Alliesthesia - Wikipedia
  • Intro, sentence 1
    describes the dependence of perceived pleasure or displeasure of stimuli on the internal state of an organism
  • Evidence section
    The first scientific publication from 1968
  • lead section, phenomenon-kind classification
    The relationship between the perceptual system and physiology is subjective and studied by psychophysics.
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