Abstract
Motivation is an essential part of positive affect which is often overlooked by emotion scientists. In this article we aim to show commonalities and differences between approach motivation and positive affect and highlight dissociations between these often-confounded phenomena. We will start by providing (working) definitions of concepts related to approach motivation and positive affect. We will ...
Abstract
Motivation is an essential part of positive affect which is often overlooked by emotion scientists. In this article we aim to show commonalities and differences between approach motivation and positive affect and highlight dissociations between these often-confounded phenomena. We will start by providing (working) definitions of concepts related to approach motivation and positive affect. We will then discuss how approach motivation can be unique from positive affect and how extreme levels of approach motivation can disassociate from positive affect. This will be followed by a short review on how approach motivation as one dimension of positive affect impacts cognitive scope. Finally, we will address how differential aspects of reward prospect relate to approach motivation and positive affect and modulate their impact on cognition.
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