%0 Book Section %T Pleasure, the common currency of emotions publisher New York Academy of Sciences %D 2003 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/61110 %X Pleasure/displeasure is the common currency for accessing behavior in response to the various emotions; no emotion is hedonically indifferent. The hedonic dimension is what pathognomonically defines emotion. Pleasure thus makes emotion a motivating experience. %~