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Motives driving gaze and walking decisions

Current Biology, 2021
To navigate complex environments, people must decide how to direct gaze to acquire relevant information and decide where, when, and how to move the body. Recent work supports the idea that gaze may be directed to reduce task-relevant environmental uncertainty and to ensure movement accuracy based on the cost (or effort) to move the body and maintain ...
F Javier, Domínguez-Zamora   +1 more
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Motivating Informed Decisions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
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Fundamental Motives and Business Decisions

2011
You walk into a crowded negotiation room. Who do you notice? Who do you later remember? Do you try to fit in, or attempt to stand out from others? Do you accept the first reasonable offer, or do you balk at that offer? The answers likely depend critically on your current motivational state.
Griskevicius, V   +3 more
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How decision reversibility affects motivation.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2014
The present research examined how decision reversibility can affect motivation. On the basis of extant findings, it was suggested that 1 way it could affect motivation would be to strengthen different regulatory foci, with reversible decision making, compared to irreversible decision making, strengthening prevention-related motivation relatively more ...
Bullens, L.   +3 more
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Are decisions motive-perpetuating?

Analysis, 1999
How should we understand the relation between decision-making and motivation? Thomas Pink has recently argued (Pink 1996) that decisions perpetuate pre-existing motives, and that whatever motivated the formation of a decision should, after that decision is taken, also motivate the action. In this article I argue that this view has certain problems, and
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The Motivational Dynamics of Dissent Decisions

Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2013
We propose that dissent decisions involve a tension between shorter term group stability goals and longer term group change goals. Strongly identified members may be animated by either goal, and their behavior with respect to group norms is influenced by which is currently dominant.
Dominic J. Packer   +2 more
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Control Motivations and Capital Structure Decision

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This paper investigates the impact of corporate control motives on the firm's capital structure decision. Block holders with high control motivations face a trade-off between getting external finance and losing or diluting their control over the firm's decisions. Debt offers a solution to this dilemma while external equity does not. We hypothesize that
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Motivation and Decision-Making

1983
It is a matter of common observation that an animal does not respond to a stimulus in the same way every time that stimulus is encountered. We only have to think of the lion moving through the bush and coming upon a herd of wildebeest. On some occasions such an encounter results in the lion stalking and perhaps killing one of the wildebeest. On others,
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Legacy motivations & the psychology of intergenerational decisions

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2019
Critical issues in society today involve long time horizons and multiple generations of people. A central challenge in intergenerational decisions is that the interests of present and future generations are not always aligned. The goals and focus of research on intergenerational decisions has been to (1) identify the key features of intergenerational ...
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