The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of … order to explain the way pleasure determines desires and volition. Whereas pleasure is primarily, in Hume's words, an … impression of sensation, it takes place in the birth of passions as reflecting an idea of pleasure, whose “force and vivacity” is …

happiness. The difficulty comes from the fact that desire does not depend on pleasure as an impression, but on the force of an … idea of pleasure, based upon a belief in the realisation of the correlative impression. Typically, this belief is linked to …'s reactivity to pleasure, and his preference for present (compared to future) pleasures. On the contrary, interest and happiness do …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of … order to explain the way pleasure determines desires and volition. Whereas pleasure is primarily, in Hume's words, an … impression of sensation, it takes place in the birth of passions as reflecting an idea of pleasure, whose “force and vivacity” is …

cooperators relieve negative emotions when they punish free riders. In response, the free-riders experience negative emotions when …

In this paper, we consider that our experience of time (to come) depends on the emotions we feel when we imagine future … pleasant or unpleasant events. A positive emotion such as relief or joy associated with a pleasant event that will happen in … expands. A negative emotion such as grief or frustration associatedwith an unpleasant event thatwill happen in the future …

conventional income - leisure trade-off. Whether out of reason or out of emotion, taxpayers may also be willing to punish …

investigate the relationships between emotions, deception, and rational decision-making by means of an experiment on tax evasion …. Emotions are measured by skin conductance responses and self-reports. We show that the intensity of anticipated and … anticipatory emotions before reporting positively correlates with both the decision to cheat and the proportion of evaded income …

puzzle. In this paper, we investigate the role of emotions as a possible explanation of tax compliance. Our laboratory … experiment shows that emotional arousal, measured by Skin Conductance Responses, increases in the proportion of evaded taxes. The … perspective of punishment after an audit, especially when the pictures of the evaders are publicly displayed, also raises emotions …