at times more powerful than pleasure/pain. For example, in some situations, people will accept pain (buying home insurance) in order to overcome fear (anticipation of your house burning down).
Peep Laja • How to Build Websites that Sell: The Scientific Approach to Websites
The Wundt curve shows that overly simple and predictable stimuli provide only neutral hedonic value. Positive hedonic value requires stimuli that are somewhat novel/complex/ambiguous. Too much novelty or complexity, however, leads to negative hedonic value. There is, then, a “sweet spot” for the right amount of stimulus novelty/complexity: slightly... See more
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
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the holy grail for recommendation systems
Values are also updated due to new information, like when we are exposed to previously unknown consequences of a choice. The experience of having an emotion is the experience of reprioritizing after recognizing a new value (often due to new information).
Joe Edelman • Human Values
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Using emotion in your content is essential to creating a unique value, and you will need to learn how. This is because information alone rarely sways people. Only feelings do.
Chris Brogan • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
value is actually the percentage chance that whatever you thought you saw in the population was really just due to random variation and not your intervention.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
It is often used to mean benefits, offering, unique selling point (USP) or differentiation, and is also generally regarded as the preserve of sales and marketing and not linked to an organization’s strategy.
Helen Blake • Creating and Delivering Your Value Proposition: Managing Customer Experience for Profit
Assessing Value - When your brain is assessing value it is calculating the rewards and punishments associated with taking or avoiding a specific course of action and ultimately decides which actions are worth pursuing.
every.to • The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Goals
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