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Reinforcement and punishment: Dissociable systems for action and emotion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Simon Killcross
Simon Killcross
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdomask1@york.ac.uk www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/
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Abstract

Rolls presents a theory of emotion based on the premise that emotions are evoked by events that are capable of being instrumental reinforcers and punishers. As support for this theory is drawn almost entirely from experiments in non-human primates, valuable insights into the relationship between punishment and reinforcement systems, and the nature of instrumentality, may have been overlooked.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 205
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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