Emotion and Valuation Systems
Emotion and Valuation Systems
Articles on how affective states—fear, reward, stress, and hope—modulate how options are weighted and chosen in economic contexts.
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Evolutionary Study Identifies 15 Core Motives Shaping Human Behavior
Researchers analyzed human motivation from an evolutionary perspective, identifying 15 key motives that drive behavior, grouped into five categories with applications in marketing, AI, and mental health.
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The Envy Circuit: How Monkeys Learn to Value Less When Others Win
A 2018 macaque study maps a medial prefrontal to midbrain pathway that tracks a partner's reward and lowers the subjective value of one's own.