Data from: Trait anticipatory pleasure predicts effort expenditure for reward

Research in motivation and emotion has been increasingly influenced by the
perspective that processes underpinning the motivated approach of
rewarding goals are distinct from those underpinning enjoyment during
reward consummation. This distinction recently inspired the construction
of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS), a self-report measure
that distinguishes trait anticipatory pleasure (pre-reward feelings of
desire) from consummatory pleasure (feelings of enjoyment and
gratification upon reward attainment). In a university community sample (N
= 97), we examined the TEPS subscales as predictors of (1) the willingness
to expend effort for monetary rewards, and (2) affective responses to a
pleasant mood induction procedure. Results showed that both anticipatory
pleasure and a well-known trait measure of reward motivation predicted
effort-expenditure for rewards when the probability of being rewarded was
relatively low. Against expectations, consummatory pleasure was unrelated
to induced pleasant affect. Taken together, our findings provide support
for the validity of the TEPS anticipatory pleasure scale, but not the
consummatory pleasure scale.