The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the
environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …

The authors review a range of evidence concerning the motivational underpinnings of anger
as an affect, with particular reference to the relationship between anger and anxiety or fear …

Emotions are affective states related to physiological responses. This study proposes a
model for recognition of three emotions: amusement, sadness, and neutral from …

This book is a reader-friendly description of a viewpoint on human behavior which sees all
behavior as aimed at attaining goals. A wide variety of topics are treated (the theory is …

Affect is basic to many if not all psychological phenomena. This article examines 2 of the
most fundamental properties of affective experience—valence and arousal—asking how …

Colored photographic pictures that varied widely across the affective dimensions of valence
(pleasantunpleasant) and arousal (excitedcalm) were each viewed for a 6s period while …

In the present paper we present the outlines of a model that integrates autonomic,
attentional, and affective systems into a functional and structural network that may help to …

This article offers a reformulation of the negative reinforcement model of drug addiction and
proposes that the escape and avoidance of negative affect is the prepotent motive for …

Evaluative processes refer to the operations by which organisms discriminate threatening
from nurturant environments. Low activation of positive and negative evaluative processes …

Pain interrupts and demands attention. The authors review evidence for how and why this
interruption of attention is achieved. The interruptive function of pain depends on the …