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A Physiological and Psychological Analysis of Pain: A Potential Model of Motivation

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Stimuli that give rise to the perception of pain are powerful motivating forces throughout the animal kingdom. Thus, pain shares with the more traditionally studied motivational systems an interspecies generality that presumably has evolved because of its critical survival value. However, the study of pain as an instigator of behavior offers a number of unique advantages that could allow more rapid and detailed understanding of the physiological and psychological mechanisms of motivational states.

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Mayer, D.J., Price, D.D. (1982). A Physiological and Psychological Analysis of Pain: A Potential Model of Motivation. In: Pfaff, D.W. (eds) The Physiological Mechanisms of Motivation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5692-2_15

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