Pleasure Landscape Theory (PLT) is a conceptual framework that models human pleasure as a multi-layered regulatory architecture across bodily, relational, agentic, and meaning-based domains. The theory integrates affective regulation, reward dynamics, and developmental differentiation to explain contemporary patterns of dysregulation, including burnout, hedonic narrowing, and loss of meaning. This version (v1) presents the core architecture and theoretical foundations, intended as a versioned preprint for further refinement and empirical extension.
Hormoz Pourrostami (Sat,) studied this question.