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  • Behavioral neuroscience
  • Ethology
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Behavior systems approaches traditionally focus on motivation and appetitive behaviors.
  • Emotions and affect have been largely overlooked in these analyses.
  • Motivation, emotion, and cognition are interconnected and influence all behaviors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To argue for the explicit incorporation of emotions and hedonic processes into behavior systems approaches.
  • To highlight the potential of emotions to drive behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Review of recent behaviorist, neuroscience, and animal behavior studies.
  • Theoretical formulation and evaluation of the role of emotions in behavior.

Main Results:

  • Emotions, like motivational drives, can initiate appetitive searching and avoidance behaviors.
  • Consummatory acts are influenced by emotional consequences and satiation.
  • Integrating emotions broadens the scope of behavior systems approaches.

Conclusions:

  • Explicitly incorporating emotions and hedonic processes into behavior systems is timely and beneficial.
  • This integration can significantly expand the reach of behavior systems approaches within psychological research.