ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2014
Truth, control, and value motivations: the "what," "how," and "why" of approach and avoidance.
Review in Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Goal orientation shifts attentional focus and impairs reward-motivated memory.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Processing of misinformation as motivational and cognitive biases.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- Associations Between Trait Boredom and Frequency of Cannabis, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use in College Students.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2023Article
- Preclinical and clinical evidence on the approach-avoidance conflict evaluation as an integrative tool for psychopathology.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Article
- Clinical governance breakdown: Australian cases of wilful blindness and whistleblowing.Nursing ethics · 2019Article
- Beyond Value in Moral Phenomenology: The Role of Epistemic and Control Experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Editorial: Individual differences: from neurobiological bases to new insight on approach and avoidance behavior.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2015Article
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Abstract
The hedonic principle-the desire to approach pleasure and avoid pain-is frequently presumed to be the fundamental principle upon which motivation is built. In the past few decades, researchers have enriched our understanding of how approaching pleasure and avoiding pain differ from each other. However, more recent empirical and theoretical work delineating the principles of motivation in humans and non-human animals has shown that not only can approach/avoidance motivations themselves be further distinguished into promotion approach/avoidance and prevention approach/avoidance, but that approaching pleasure and avoiding pain requires the functioning of additional distinct motivations-the motivation to establish what is real (truth) and the motivation to manage what happens (control). Considering these additional motivations in the context of moral psychology and animal welfare science suggests that these less-examined motives may themselves be fundamental to a comprehensive understanding of motivation, with major implications for the study of the "what," "how," and "why" of human and non-human approach and avoidance behavior.
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