EMOTIONS & MOTIVATIONS

WHITE PAPERS

Below are detailed white papers and articles covering emotions, motivations and stress:

• Classics in the History of Psychology - What is an Emotion? ("..The physiologists who, during the past few years, have been so industriously exploring the functions of the brain, have limited their attempts at explanation to its cognitive and volitional performances. Dividing the brain into sensorial and motor centres, they have found their division to be exactly paralleled by the analysis made by empirical psychology.." - Detailed)

• Emotion and Motivation ("..Emotion was once regarded as a base instinct to be subdued or repressed. Now scientists increasingly view it as a safeguard of survival and an enrichment of experience throughout development. Emotional expression provides a powerful communication system.." - Detailed)

• The Lateralization of Emotion ("..Although a slice of the human brain across a sagittal plane reveals evident symmetry, the right and left hemispheres are not entirely symmetrical. Asymmetries, both functional and anatomical, exist throughout the neocortex and cortical substructures..")

• Emotion, Regulation, And Moral Development ("..Research and theory on the role of emotion and regulation in morality have received considerable attention in the last decade. Much relevant work has concerned the role of moral emotions in moral behavior. Research on differences between embarrassment, guilt, and shame and their relations to moral behavior is reviewed..")

• Computational Modelling Of Emotion And Reasoning ("..CRIBB (Children’s Reasoning about Intentions, Beliefs and Behaviour) is a computational model of belief-desire reasoning. This paper presents an analysis of CRIBB and the initial design for an extension..." - PDF)

• Motivation and Emotion: An Interactive Process Model ("..In this chapter, I outline dynamic models of motivation and emotion. These turn out not to be autonomous subsystems, but, instead, are deeply integrated in the basic interactive dynamic character of living systems. Motivation is a crucial aspect of particular kinds of interactive systems.." - Detailed)

• Motivation, Emotion and Stress ("..Motivation is about why organisms behave as they do. Why do they behave one way rather than another?.." - Detailed)

• Literacy, Emotions, and the Brain

• The chemistry of emotions

• Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions

• and more...

THE BRAIN

The brain is certainly responsible for all our feelings. Here are some more details:

• Limbic System: The Center of Emotions

• Seeing Our Feelings - Imaging Emotion in the Brain ("..In the last few years, there has been a revolution in the study of emotions. Our emotions -- love, fear, anger, desire -- give coloration and meaning to everything in life.

• Theories of Emotion & Brain Structures That Mediate Emotion

• Left Brain - Right Brain: Bicameral Images reveal our two selves (about emotions...)

• and more...

There exist some more interesting and related articles and information about emotions you may like to read about:

• The Relation Between the Physical State of the Brain-Cells and Brain Functions--Experimental and Clinical ("..The brain in all animals (including man) is but the clearing-house for reactions to environment, for animals are essentially motor or neuromotor mechanisms, composed of many parts..")

• Behavior, Motivation and Self-Control. (Very Detailed)

• and more...

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