Addiction & self-control › Wanting versus liking
Term
Wanting versus liking
The distinction between motivational pursuit of a reward and hedonic enjoyment of the reward.
Context
Evidence & provenance
Source-backed trail
The project corpus supplies 2 supporting references for this concept or its surrounding literature. The concise definition above is wiki-authored; consult the cited source directly for study design, population, estimates, and limitations. [1] [2]
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Further reading
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