How Absent Negativity Relates to Affect and Motivation: An Integrative Relief Model

The present paper concerns the motivational underpinnings and behavioral correlates of the prevention or stopping of negative stimulation – a situation referred to as relief. Relief is of great theoretical and applied interest. Theoretically, it is tied to theories linking affect, emotion and motiva...

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Main Authors: Roland eDeutsch, Kevin eSmith, Robert eKordts-Freudinger, Regina eReichardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00152/full