TY - JOUR
AU1 - Buck, Ross
AB - Motivation and emotion are viewed as different aspects of a single process in which emotion involves the “readout” of motivational potential inherent in hierarchically organized primary motivational/emotional systems (primes). The most basic readout, Emotion I, involves adaptive-homeostatic functions. In species where communication about the state of certain primes became important, Emotion II, involving their outward expression, evolved. With cognition, a third type of readout evolved, Emotion III, involving the direct experience of certain primes. A model of the interaction between primes and cognition is presented, and the unique role of language in human motivation-emotion is discussed.
TI - Prime Theory: An Integrated View of Motivation and Emotion
JF - Psychological Review
DO - 10.1037/0033-295X.92.3.389
DA - 1985-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/prime-theory-an-integrated-view-of-motivation-and-emotion-3LSICdBPv2
SP - 389
EP - 413
VL - 92
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -