Hedonic adaptation

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Hedonic adaptation

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Hedonic treadmill - observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes. Article “Hedonic adaptation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 60 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Hedonic adaptation”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 255 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 127 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2768 in February 2021
  • Global: #81573 in June 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #13900 in December 2024
  • Global: #43855 in May 2014

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Simple English (simple)
Hedonic adaptation
60.0078
2English (en)
Hedonic treadmill
46.1084
3Portuguese (pt)
Adaptação hedónica
41.1985
4Japanese (ja)
快楽順応
32.8329
5French (fr)
Adaptation hédonique
30.8028
6Catalan (ca)
Adaptació hedònica
25.7879
7Turkish (tr)
Hedonik uyum
25.317
8Azerbaijani (az)
Hedonik adaptasiya
25.299
9German (de)
Hedonistische Tretmühle
24.9582
10Ukrainian (uk)
Гедоністична адаптація
23.7354
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Hedonic adaptation" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Hedonic treadmill
2 852 925
2German (de)
Hedonistische Tretmühle
162 897
3Russian (ru)
Гедонистическая адаптация
90 625
4French (fr)
Adaptation hédonique
66 422
5Portuguese (pt)
Adaptação hedónica
52 580
6Czech (cs)
Hédonická adaptace
39 587
7Spanish (es)
Adaptación hedónica
15 882
8Ukrainian (uk)
Гедоністична адаптація
15 751
9Finnish (fi)
Hedoninen oravanpyörä
11 634
10Arabic (ar)
تكيف المتعة
10 525
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Hedonic adaptation" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Hedonic treadmill
13 990
2German (de)
Hedonistische Tretmühle
960
3French (fr)
Adaptation hédonique
776
4Finnish (fi)
Hedoninen oravanpyörä
630
5Russian (ru)
Гедонистическая адаптация
488
6Simple English (simple)
Hedonic adaptation
406
7Japanese (ja)
快楽順応
360
8Spanish (es)
Adaptación hedónica
302
9Czech (cs)
Hédonická adaptace
215
10Portuguese (pt)
Adaptação hedónica
152
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Hedonic adaptation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Hedonic treadmill
148
2French (fr)
Adaptation hédonique
28
3German (de)
Hedonistische Tretmühle
20
4Czech (cs)
Hédonická adaptace
9
5Arabic (ar)
تكيف المتعة
6
6Portuguese (pt)
Adaptação hedónica
6
7Simple English (simple)
Hedonic adaptation
6
8Ukrainian (uk)
Гедоністична адаптація
6
9Finnish (fi)
Hedoninen oravanpyörä
5
10Russian (ru)
Гедонистическая адаптация
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Hedonic adaptation" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Hedonistische Tretmühle
2
2English (en)
Hedonic treadmill
2
3Arabic (ar)
تكيف المتعة
0
4Azerbaijani (az)
Hedonik adaptasiya
0
5Catalan (ca)
Adaptació hedònica
0
6Czech (cs)
Hédonická adaptace
0
7Danish (da)
Den hedonistiske trædemølle
0
8Spanish (es)
Adaptación hedónica
0
9Finnish (fi)
Hedoninen oravanpyörä
0
10French (fr)
Adaptation hédonique
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Hedonic adaptation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Hedonic treadmill
79
2German (de)
Hedonistische Tretmühle
9
3French (fr)
Adaptation hédonique
8
4Ukrainian (uk)
Гедоністична адаптація
6
5Japanese (ja)
快楽順応
5
6Arabic (ar)
تكيف المتعة
4
7Finnish (fi)
Hedoninen oravanpyörä
4
8Danish (da)
Den hedonistiske trædemølle
3
9Russian (ru)
Гедонистическая адаптация
3
10Spanish (es)
Adaptación hedónica
2
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تكيف المتعة
azAzerbaijani
Hedonik adaptasiya
caCatalan
Adaptació hedònica
csCzech
Hédonická adaptace
daDanish
Den hedonistiske trædemølle
deGerman
Hedonistische Tretmühle
enEnglish
Hedonic treadmill
esSpanish
Adaptación hedónica
fiFinnish
Hedoninen oravanpyörä
frFrench
Adaptation hédonique
hrCroatian
Hedonistička adaptacija
jaJapanese
快楽順応
ptPortuguese
Adaptação hedónica
ruRussian
Гедонистическая адаптация
simpleSimple English
Hedonic adaptation
trTurkish
Hedonik uyum
ukUkrainian
Гедоністична адаптація

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#13900
12.2024
Global:
#43855
05.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2768
02.2021
Global:
#81573
06.2018

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Hedonic treadmill from Wikipedia articles about Hedonism, Keeping up with the Joneses, Lifestyle creep, Toxic positivity and Diderot effect. Whereas reading the article about Hedonic treadmill people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Hedonism, Neuroticism, Lifestyle creep, Diderot effect and Hedonic regression.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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