Q: Is pleasure a broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive? ¶
A: Yes, and enjoyable, or worth seeking.
Q: Is pleasure often regarded as a bipolar construct? ¶
A: Yes, and meaning that the two ends of the spectrum from pleasant to unpleasant are mutually exclusive.
Q: Is pleasure called hedonophobia? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is pleasure considered to be one of the core dimensions of emotion? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Was pleasure the chief good and pain the chief evil? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is pleasure an affect and not an emotion? ¶
A: Yes, as it forms one component of several different emotions.
Q: Is pleasure experienced by other animals rather than being an exclusive property of humankind? ¶
A: Yes, however, it is now known that animals do experience pleasure, as measured by objective behavioral and neural hedonic responses to pleasurable stimuli.
Q: Is pleasure sometimes subdivided into fundamental pleasures that are closely related to survival and higher-order pleasures? ¶
A: Yes, The clinical condition of being unable to experience pleasure from usually enjoyable activities is called anhedonia.
Q: Is pleasure subjective and different individuals will experience different kinds and amounts of pleasure in the same situation? ¶
A: Yes.