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Beyond pleasure and pain
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People approach pleasure and avoid pain. To discover the true nature of approach-avoidance motivation, psychologists need to move beyond this hedonic principle to the principles that underlie the different ways that it operates. One such principle is regulatory focus, which distinguishes self-regulation with a promotion focus (accomplishments and aspirations) from self-regulation with a prevention focus (safety and responsibilities). This principle is used to reconsider the fundamental nature of approach-avoidance, expectancy-value relations, and emotional and evaluative sensitivities. Both types of regulatory focus are applied to phenomena that have been treated in terms of either promotion (e.g., well-being) or prevention (e.g., cognitive dissonance). Then, regulatory focus is distinguished from regulatory anticipation and regulatory reference, 2 other principles underlying the different ways that people approach pleasure and avoid pain.
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“Behavior is driven by two fundamental action tendencies: avoidance and approach”
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“Indeed, there is a positive link between abstract construal (i.e., global processing style) and promotion regulatory focus (associated with approach motivation; Higgins, 1997), and a positive link between concrete construal (i.e., local processing style) and prevention regulatory focus (associated with avoidance motivation; Förster & Higgins, 2005).”
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“Further research shows that each dimension involves distinct motivational systems geared toward avoiding negative affective experiences and approaching pleasant and affectively positive experiences (e.g., [69]).”
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“Over the life course and with advancing age, the intentional focus of assimilative activities tends to shift from a ''promotion'' focus (Higgins, 1997) toward a focus on prevention and compensation.”
From The Life-Course Dynamics of Goal Pursuit and Goal Adjustment: A Two-Process Framework (2002) · cites this paper as Higgins, 1997
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Metadata
- Authors
- Higgins, E. T.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Higgins, E. Tory
- ORCID
- Higgins, E. Tory
- Venue
- American Psychologist
- Published
- 1997-12
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1280-1300
- ISSN
- 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-990X
- OpenAlex
- W4234715662
- Cited by
- 6,775
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- FWCI
- 43.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Psychologist (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH39429)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychology and Mental Health
- Keywords
- pleasure, pain, affect, emotions
- MeSH terms
- Emotions, Humans, Models, Psychological, Motivation, Philosophy, Pleasure-Pain Principle
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