Abstract:Although significant progress has been made in understanding how learning controls the operation of motivational systems, much less is known about how motivational systems control behavior to achieve motivational stability and resolve motivational conflict. Here we provide an overview of the basic characteristics of motivational conflict as well as historically influential approaches to understanding motivational stability and conflict. This is followed by an outline of an arbiter model of motivational stabili… Show more
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