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Why not emotions as motivated behaviors?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

George Ainslie  and
John Monterosso
George Ainslie*
Affiliation:
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, PA19320
John Monterosso*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA90024http://www.picoeconomics.com
*
George.Ainslie@med.va.gov
jmont@ucla.edu
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Abstract:

Lewis's dynamic systems approach is a refreshing change from the reflexology of most neuroscience, but it could go a step further: It could include the expected rewardingness of an emotion in the recursive feedback loop that determines whether the emotion will occur. Two possible objections to such a model are discussed: that emotions are not deliberate, and that negative emotions should lose out as instrumental choices.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 194 - 195
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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