In business, marketing and social work, financial incentives are often used to increase people's motivation, guide their ...

Psychological Inquiry, Vol. 30, No. 3 (July-September 2019), pp. 111-124 (14 pages) Approach motivation (striving for desired end-states, eagerly focusing on where one wants to be) is often held up as ...

Individuals often rely on their affect for information. However, positive or negative affect may not be informative for individuals who are more prone to feel affect of this particular valence in ...

Researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior. Mount Sinai researchers have ...

Are you feeling equally drawn and repelled by the paths before you? This tug-of-war within us is known as ambivalence, a common human experience, especially when facing change. Ambivalence is part of ...