Domachowska, Heitmann, Deutsch, et al., (2016) conducted a rigorous direct replication and conceptual extension of one of our past studies examining the influence of high approach-motivated positive affect on attentional scope (Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2008, Study 2). We applaud their careful, thorough investigation and conceptual replication into this important area of emotion–cognition interaction. These studies raise interesting methodological questions for the study of motivation in positive affect. We respond to these questions and review evidence from our labs and others providing support for the Motivational Dimensional Model of affect. This work suggests that motivational intensity rather than affective valence alters attentional scope and cognitive scope more broadly. That is, affective states which are low in motivational intensity (e.g., amusement, sadness, postgoal positive affect) broaden cognitive scope, whereas affective states which are high in motivational intensity (e.g., desire, disgust, pregoal positive affect) narrow cognitive scope.