Sources of avoidance motivation: Valence effects from physical effort and mental rotation
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Sources of avoidance motivation: Valence effects from physical effort and mental rotation
When reaching goals, organisms must simultaneously meet the overarching goal of conserving energy. According to the law of least effort, organisms will select the means associated with the least effort. The mechanisms underlying this bias remain unknown. One hypothesis is that organisms come to avoid situations associated with unnecessary effort by generating a negative valence toward the stimu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Motivation and Emotion
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0146-7239,1573-6644
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-010-9172-y