AJ Elliot, R Friedman - Personal project pursuit, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Motivated behavior may be energized or directed by a positive or negative event or possibility. For example, a person may desire to attain success or seek to deepen a …
AJ Elliot - Motivation and emotion, 2006 - Springer
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 …
In this concluding piece, we identify and discuss various aspects of convergence and, to a lesser degree, divergence in the ideas expressed in the contributions to this special section …
Abstract Approach motivation (striving for desired end-states, eagerly focusing on where one wants to be) is often held up as the best type of motivation: It feels good and is associated …
Two core motivational systems have been conceptualized as underlying emotion and behavior. The approach system drives the organism toward stimuli or events in the …
Theories from diverse areas of psychology assume that affective stimuli facilitate approach and avoidance behavior because they elicit motivational orientations that prepare the …
RS Friedman, J Förster - Handbook of approach and …, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
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 …
The purpose of this chapter is to resurrect an old area of research in psychology, that of the study of “approach-avoidance behavior” This research topic, more or less forgotten for some …
We discuss some research that has examined approach motivational urges and how this research clarifies the definition of approach motivation. Our research and that of others have …