Navigating Motivation: A Semantic and Subjective Atlas of 7 Motives.

ABSTRACT: Research from psychology, neurobiology and behavioral economics indicates that a binary view of motivation, based on approach and avoidance, may be too reductive. Instead, a literature review suggests that at least seven distinct motives are likely to affect human decisions: "consumption/resource seeking," "care," "affiliation," "achievement," "status-power," "threat approach" (or anger), and "threat avoidance" (or fear). To explore the conceptual distinctness and relatedness of these motives, we conducted a semantic categorization task. Here, participants were to assign provided words to one of the motives. By applying principal component analysis to the categorization assignments we represent the semantic inter-relations of these motives on a two-dimensional space, a "semantic atlas." Th

SUBMITTER: Chierchia G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7874174 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature