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Advances in Motivation Science
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Advances in Motivation Science

by Andrew J. Elliot
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
220 pages
7h 15m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter Two

Motivation, Emotion, Cognition, and Communication: Definitions and Notes Toward a Grand Theory

Ross Buck1    University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States1 Corresponding author: email address: ross.buck@uconn.edu

Abstract

I present specific definitions of motivation, emotion, and cognition in terms of primary motivational–emotional systems or primes; and develop a Developmental–Interactionist view of their interrelationships. I address the “hundred-year emotion war” about whether the concept “emotion” can be considered a unitary construct, arguing that a simple definition is inappropriate. First, neurochemical systems form the bases of subjectively experienced emotions (affects), while, at a different level of analysis, ecological ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780128171233