A place for emotions in behavior systems research

Burghardt, Gordon M.,(2019), A place for emotions in behavior systems research. , Behavioral Processes, UNSPECIFIED

Abstract

Although issuesof motivation,includingappetitivesearching behavior,have beencrucial aspectsof behavior systemsapproachessincetheirinception,aswellasintheethologicalresearchandmodelsthatinspiredthem, emotions and affect have been noticeably absent in such analyses. Emotions and affect may have been lying belowthesurfaceallthetime,however,asmotivation,emotion,andcognitiveprocessingareembeddedinall aspectsof behavior,includingconditioningandlearning.Hereabrief caseismadethatemotionsandrelated hedonicprocesses,canandshouldbeexplicitlyincorporatedintobehaviorsystemsapproaches.Evidencefrom recent behaviorist, neuroscience, and animal behavior (including human) studies suggest that emotions may, just as motivational drives, lead to appetitive searching and avoidance, both general and focal, as well as consummatoryactswithemotionalconsequencesandsatiation.Researchtestingtheseclaims,aswellastheoreticalformulationsandevaluations,wouldbetimelyandextendthereachofbehaviorsystemsapproachestoa farwiderswathofpsychologicalresearchthanithasengagedwithhitherto.
Keywords : UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED
Journal or Publication Title: Behavioral Processes
Volume: 166
Number: UNSPECIFIED
Item Type: Article
Depositing User: Yuwono Yuwono
Date Deposited: 13 Dec 2019 07:43
Last Modified: 13 Dec 2019 08:12
URI: https://repofeb.undip.ac.id/id/eprint/76

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