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Consequence Valuing as Operation and Process: A Parsimonious Analysis of Motivation

Robert Whelan, Dermot Barnes-Holmes

The Psychological Record > 2010 > 60 > 2 > 337-354

The concept of the motivating operation (MO) has been subject to 3 criticisms: (a) the terms and concepts employed do not always overlap with traditional behavior-analytic verbal practices; (b) the dual nature of the MO is unclear; and (c) there is a lack of adequate contact with empirical data. We offer a more parsimonious approach to motivation, extending Skinner’s (1938, 1953) early work on this...

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An Integrative Process Approach on Judgment and Decision Making: The Impact of Arousal, Affect, Motivation, and Cognitive Ability

Arne Roets, Alain Hiel

The Psychological Record > 2011 > 61 > 3 > 497-520

This article aims to integrate the findings from various research traditions on human judgment and decision making, focusing on four process variables: arousal, affect, motivation, and cognitive capacity/ability. We advocate a broad perspective referred to as the integrative process approach (IPA) of decision making, in which these process variables explain the effects of dispositional and situational...

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The Role of Emotions in Reinforcement: Response Selection in Humans

Geir Overskeid

The Psychological Record > 2012 > 62 > 1 > 125-131

Historically, researchers have never quite been able to agree as to the role of emotions, if any, when behavior is selected by its consequences. A brief review of findings from several fields suggests that in contingency-shaped behavior, motivating events, often unconscious, seem needed for reinforcement to select behavior. In rule-governed behavior, on the other hand, conscious feelings may be necessary...

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Motivation in Behavior Analysis: A Critique

Linda J. Hayes, Mitch J. Fryling

The Psychological Record > 2014 > 64 > 2 > 339-347

In this article we consider the concept of motivation in behavior analysis from a unique, radical monistic perspective derived from interbehaviorism and interbehavioral psychology. In considering this concept, a number of logical and conceptual issues with the behavior-analytic treatment of motivation are discovered. We describe an alternative means by which the issues typically addressed under the...

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The Motivating Operations Concept: Current Status and Critical Response

Sean Laraway, Susan Snycerski, Ryan Olson, Bernd Becker, more

The Psychological Record > 2014 > 64 > 3 > 601-623

This paper reviews the current status of the Motivating Operation Concept (MOC), followed by a critical response to Whelan and D. Barnes-Holmes (2010), who argued against the MOC and proposed an alternative analysis of motivation, the Consequence-Valuing Operation (CVO). In this paper, we: (a) review the MOC and discuss its conceptual and empirical status, (b) clarify certain aspects of the MOC, (c)...

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Exploring the Relations between Regret, Self-agency, and the Tendency to Repair Using Experimental Methods and Structural Equation Modeling

Evelien Bossuyt, Agnes Moors, Jan Houwer

The Psychological Record > 2014 > 64 > 4 > 841-857

Previous studies suggest that feelings of regret are elicited by events appraised as goal incongruent and caused by the self, and that they are characterized by a tendency to repair the event. Study 1 investigated whether the appraisal of self-agency increases the tendency to repair. Participants played a game in which goal-congruent and goal-incongruent events were caused by themselves (self-agency)...

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Toward an Analysis of Emotions as Products of Motivating Operations

Matthew Lewon, Linda J. Hayes

The Psychological Record > 2014 > 64 > 4 > 813-825

The study of motivation within behavior analysis has historically pertained to the investigation of organism-environment interactions that alter the efficacy of events as reinforcers or aversive stimuli. A number of authors have noted similarities between the motivational properties of events that are classified as motivating operations (MOs) and the sorts of events typically held to occasion emotions...

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Consequence Valuing as Operation and Process: A Parsimonious Analysis of Motivation

An Integrative Process Approach on Judgment and Decision Making: The Impact of Arousal, Affect, Motivation, and Cognitive Ability

The Role of Emotions in Reinforcement: Response Selection in Humans

Motivation in Behavior Analysis: A Critique

The Motivating Operations Concept: Current Status and Critical Response

Exploring the Relations between Regret, Self-agency, and the Tendency to Repair Using Experimental Methods and Structural Equation Modeling

Toward an Analysis of Emotions as Products of Motivating Operations

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