Commentary on Balcetis: On Some Limits to the Motivational Direction Approach

Emotion Review 8 (2):129-130 (2016)
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Abstract

While we are sympathetic to Balcetis’s approach, we feel that using motivational direction as the sole organizing structure for influences of affect on perception may be unnecessarily limiting. Three reasons for this concern are discussed.

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Dustin Stokes
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