236 Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation hypo thesis in the course of offering a
refined and expanded account of the link between motivation and attention. On the …

Compared to approach motivation, avoidance motivation evokes vigilance, attention to
detail, systematic information processing, and the recruitment of cognitive resources. From a …

Abstract 'Everyone knows what attention is' according to William James. Much work on
attention in psychology and neuroscience cites this famous phrase only to quickly dismiss it …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

Along history of philosophical thought and empirical psychological research has taught us to
accept the counterintuitive notion that our perception is highly biased. Perception does not …

Abstract Approach motivation is the energization of behavior by, or the direction of behavior
toward, positive stimuli (objects, events, possibilities), whereas avoidance motivation is the …

The Functional Architecture of Approach and Avoidance Motivation When a young man
marries a woman just because he cannot bear his loneliness any longer, we would not be …

A growing body of literature has demonstrated that motivation influences cognitive
processing. The breadth of these effects is extensive and span influences of reward …

Although approach and avoidance motivation are most often discussed in terms of
behaviors, it is now clear that such motivation also regulates attention. From a motivational …

Motivation is seen to guide selective attention in favor of motivation-consistent stimuli.
However, such links may be bi-directional in nature, such that selective attention processes …