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 ...
