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Preferences and motivations with and without inferences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Piotr Winkielman ,
Michael Inzlicht  and
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Piotr Winkielman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109. pwinkiel@ucsd.eduhttp://psy2.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/ Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 03-815, Warsaw, Poland.
Michael Inzlicht
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada. michael.inzlicht@utoronto.cahttp://www.michaelinzlicht.com/
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. eddiehj@gmail.comhttp://socialemotiveneuroscience.org/
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Abstract

Pessoa (2013) makes an impressive case that emotion, motivation, and cognition are neurally intertwined. Our commentary broadens the discussion to the functional, “mind” level. We argue that philosophical and computational considerations justify some modern “separatist” views. We highlight several psychological phenomena that illustrate independence, including affective and motivational reactions to rudimentary inputs, and the guiding role of such reactions in cognition.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e90
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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