Addiction & self-control › Wanting versus liking
Term

Wanting versus liking

The distinction between motivational pursuit of a reward and hedonic enjoyment of the reward.

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Context

Wiki-authored synthesis

This entry belongs to Addiction & self-control. Its role in the wiki is to provide a stable jumping-off point into a recurring body of concepts rather than to collapse that literature into a verdict.

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]

Further reading

References

  1. review
    Incentive sensitization and wanting versus liking
  2. review
    Incentive-sensitization theory of addiction