This review takes a historical perspective on concepts in the psychology of motivation and
emotion, and surveys recent developments, debates and applications. Old debates over …

Historically, the hypothesis driving emotion research has been that emotion's data-base—in
language, physiology, and behavior—is organized around specific mental states, as …

Highlights•'Wanting'(incentive salience) & 'liking'(hedonic impact) are components of
reward.•Dopamine contributes to 'wanting'but not 'liking.'•Hypoactivity in dopamine-related …

This book is a broad introduction to the literature on motivation and emotion, with an
emphasis on human studies and on animal studies with direct application to human beings …

This chapter will present evidence to suggest that emotion is best defined, not as a single
reaction, but as a process: Emotion involves multiple responses, organized according to …

In recent years significant progress has been made delineating the psychological
components of reward and their underlying neural mechanisms. Here we briefly highlight …

Highlights•The Reward process and the Emotion process are intertwined.•Evaluative
appraisal processes determine the reward value of an event.•Different rewarding stimuli …

In 1884, William James, the American psychologist, famously posed the question: what is an
emotion? After more than a century of scientific inquiry, however, emotions remain …

The study of animal emotion, as with its human equivalent, can be confusing due to the
complicated and inconsistent use of terminology, and the number of interlinked fields and …

Current Biology 31, R821–R837, July 12, 2021 R825 ll reasons why the nature of emotions
is one of the most contentious topics in the study of mind and behavior today, especially in …