(1) Other psychologists have proposed theories to account for the changes in behavior that take place when hedonic events follow the behavior.(2) Is there a way out of the hedonic treadmill, the Western model of craving and attachment?(3) Your top character traits are those that allow you to achieve meaningful happiness, instead of mere hedonic pleasure.(4) People view hedonic versus practical goods differently in terms of time and money spent to acquire them.(5) And it is the contrast between that hedonic state and the expectation of reward when the discriminative stimuli appear, that determines the relative value of those stimuli.