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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Approach motivation"”.
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Assessing Approach Motivation in Depressed Individuals with a History of Concussion
Pages viii-xiii are misnumbered as pages v-x, and pages 41-58 are misnumbered as pages 1-18.
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The effects of approach-avoidance behaviors on goal appraisals
… has demonstrated that behaviors associated with approach and avoidance motivation can influence cognitions in line with the particular motivational state (e.g., Friedman & F̈örster, 2008). The present studies examined whether behaviors associated with approach and avoidance motivation similarly …
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Self-Control and its Influence on Global/Local Processing: An Investigation of the Role of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Dispositional Approach Tendencies
… breadth differently depending on an individual’s approach-motivated tendencies, as indexed by individuals’ Behavioural Activation System (BAS) scores. Approach motivation and attentional breadth have previously been associated with frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA; i.e., lateralized cortical activity …
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Behavioural, Pharmacological, and Immunohistochemical Investigation of 50 kHz USVs as an Expression of Positive Emotional Arousal in the Long Evans Rat
… of a trait that does not merely overlap with approach motivation. The predisposition to emit 50 kHz USVs was found to provide additional information about the USV response to psychostimulant administration beyond approach motivation alone. In chapter 3, I found evidence that various social and …
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Postsecondary Teaching and Learning Development Needs: Motivators and Barriers Associated With Participation in Educational Development
… issue. Data were analyzed using a qualitative approach. Motivation theory was used as a conceptual framework in this study, referring primarily to the work of Ryan and Deci (2000), Deci and Ryan (1985), and Pink (2009). The identified motivators and barriers spanned all 3 levels of …
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Identifying the Behavioural and Psychophysiological Indicators of Mentally Tough Athletes
… a technically complex, alternative statistical approach in Bayesian structural equation modelling (BSEM), analyses supported the RST-PQ’s six-factor structure in two separate samples of student athletes. Study 2 addressed the issue of the statistical procedures used to validate the single-factor …
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Moderation by depression and anxiety of connectivity among brain areas associated with motivation
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Exploring Distinct Aspects of Shame and Guilt: Can Startle Reflex Modification Differentiate Shame from Guilt?
… negative valence, is frequently associated with approach motivation, whereas shame is associated with withdrawal motivation. Research shows that engagement of the approach motivational system yields attenuation of the defensive startle reflex, but that activation of the withdrawal motivation …
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The Role of Impulsivity and Reward Reactivity in Gray's Behavioral Activation System: Self-Reported Behavior and Autonomic Response to Reward
… has been described as playing a central role in approach motivation and reward sensitivity (Gray, 1970). Self-report measures of BAS (e.g., Carver & White, 1994) have been used to index BAS activity, with higher scores interpreted as indicating greater BAS activity (e.g., Hundt et al., 2008). …
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Cognitive Control as a Function of Anger Expression Style: A Combined ERP and fMRI Investigation
Although models of emotion and motivation have focused on the relationship between anger and approach motivation associated with aggression (anger-out), anger is also related to withdrawal motivation (anger-in). Both anger styles are associated with psychopathology but could involve different …
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The Effects of Power and Assurance of No Future Transgressions on Post-Transgression Responses
… that underlie these effects. Guided by the approach/inhibition theory of power (Keltner et al., 2003), it was hypothesized that power would have a differential effect on post-transgression responses. As predicted, Study 1 showed that power had a positive effect on revenge and a negative …
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Approach/avoidance motivation and goal maintenance: implications for models of executive function
Trait motivational approach and avoidance tendencies have a differential effect on cognitive processing, at least in part via associations with affective traits. Positive and negative emotionality are fundamental components of these motivational dispositions and have been linked in some studies to …
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Approach-avoidance motivation across cultures
… processes. One such psychological process is approach and avoidance motivations: approach motivation is useful for Westerners’ pursuit of high self-esteem whereas avoidance motivation is useful for East Asians’ concerns for face maintenance. Review of prior research renders support to this …
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An Examination of Different Motivational Orientations That Drive Graduate Students To Continue/Complete Their Education in the U.S
<p>Different types and levels of motivation can play an important role for graduate students to continue their studies. The current research study was one of the few studies that examined if domestic and international graduate students differ on their level of different motivational orientations to …
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Systems Theory Based Architecture Framework for Complex System Governance
… complex system governance using grounded theory approach. Motivation for this research includes: 1) the lack of research that identifies modeling characteristics for complex system governance, 2) the lack of a framework rooted in systems theory to support performance of complex system governance …
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The influence of trait approach & avoidance motivation on the course of depression and anxiety
Trait approach and avoidance motivation are higher-order individual differences that are related to personality, emotional temperament, and basic drives (i.e., sensitivity to pain and pleasure). Previous research has shown that approach and avoidance motivation are related to depression and …
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Factors that influence motor performance: Colour, inhibition and conscious processing
… blue spectator background would elicit avoidance motivation during football penalty-kicks, because they conveyed the meaning of dominance and threat. Professional football players displayed avoidance motivation (i.e., choosing the easier option/ kicking towards the larger side of the goal) when …
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The role of social cues in the involuntary attribution of intentionality.
… persisted when the actor expressed an avoidance motivation (fear, disgust) but not when expressing an approach motivation (happiness, anger). As the goal of an action that moves toward the observer with an avoidance expression is ambiguous but is unambiguous when expressing approach, it is …
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Using the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) to understand and change sedentary behaviour in office workers: Effects on motivation, behaviour, and health outcomes
… that highlighted important cognitive and motivational factors associated with SB, which should be targeted in theory-based interventions designed to reduce SB. Using the motivational phase of the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA), a randomized controlled trial (RCT – study 2, chapter …