Talk:Valence (psychology)

Hedonic Tone

There really needs to be an article on Hedonic tone. It fits in with Behavioral Economics. And the Daniel Kahneman article needs expanding. DCDuring 22:37, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article Zinc deficiency refers (and links to) Hedonic tone, and is definitely discussing a distinct concept from Valence; it's used there to refer to a baseline level of or capacity for hedonic drive, with e.g. low levels being correlated with anhedonia or depression. The sources cited in that article use this sense of "hedonic tone." So, by linking to the article for Valence (this article) instead, that article's use of the term "hedonic tone" is incorrectly explained. So something should in fact probably be done to clarify this. Kenton M (talk) 21:34, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Overlap

This article seems to overlap pretty heavily with the Valence effect article. I think it makes sense to merge them, but don't know the Wikipedia process for making that a "formal" suggestion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emergentchaos (talk • contribs) 23:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Page name not great

The lack of the word "emotion" in the page title is not helpful for people who don't already know what this is about. "Valence" is a terribly abstract word that could apply to just about anything.

Are either of these better?

emotional valence (psychology)
valence (psychology of emotion)

Unfortunately, this is not obvious. — MaxEnt 23:58, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lacanian valence

We should add a few lines about Lacanian valence informed by jouissance. If anyone is able to find reliable sources about this, please ping me.Zigzig20s (talk) 21:20, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

self-reports of valence

The statement that 'measurement based on a subjective report is questionable' is misleading, as self-report measures are widely accepted as a primary method in valence (affect) research. 90.231.155.121 (talk) 17:23, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]