Wanting without enjoying: The social value of sharing experiences
Jolly, Tamir, Burum and Mitchell report across seven experiments in three studies that participants were strongly motivated to engage in shared experiences, that the motivation did not come with a matching rise in hedonic enjoyment, and that participants said they were motivated by a desire to form social connections. PLOS ONE, 2019.
Jolly, Tamir, Burum and Mitchell report across seven experiments in three studies that participants were strongly motivated to engage in shared experiences, that the motivation did not come with a matching rise in hedonic enjoyment, and that participants said they were motivated by a desire to form social connections. PLOS ONE, 2019.
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PLOS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0215318 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215318