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  2. Motivation - Wikipedia

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    Motivation is relevant in many fields and affects educational success, work performance, consumer behavior, and athletic success. Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal -directed behavior. It is often understood as a force that explains why people or animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior ...

  3. Desire - Wikipedia

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    The death-of-desire thesis holds that desires cannot continue to exist once their object is realized. [8] This would mean that an agent cannot desire to have something if he believes that he already has it. [48] One objection to the death-of-desire thesis comes from the fact that our preferences usually do not change upon desire-satisfaction. [8]

  4. Compassion - Wikipedia

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    Compassion is a social feeling that motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental, or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is sensitivity to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on notions such as fairness, justice, and interdependence, it may be considered partially rational in ...

  5. Lust - Wikipedia

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    Lust is an intense desire for something. [1] [2] Lust can take any form such as the lust for sexuality (see libido), money, or power.It can take such mundane forms as the lust for food (see gluttony) as distinct from the need for food or lust for redolence, when one is lusting for a particular smell that brings back memories.

  6. Passion (emotion) - Wikipedia

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    Strong Desire for something: In whatever context, if someone desires for something and that desire has some strong feeling or emotion is defined in terms of passion. Passion has no boundary, being passionate about something which is boundless can be sometimes dangerous, In which person forget about everything and is fully determined towards the ...

  7. Motivational salience - Wikipedia

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    Incentive salience is a cognitive process that grants a "desire" or "want" attribute, which includes a motivational component to a rewarding stimulus. [1] [2] [3] [9] Reward is the attractive and motivational property of a stimulus that induces appetitive behavior – also known as approach behavior – and consummatory behavior. [3]

  8. Pleasure - Wikipedia

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    Pleasure is experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something. [1][2] It contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad. [3] It is closely related to value, desire and action: [4] humans and other conscious animals find pleasure enjoyable, positive or worthy of seeking. A great variety of activities may be ...

  9. Sexual desire - Wikipedia

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    Sexual desire is the first of four phases of the human sexual response cycle, followed by arousal, orgasm, and resolution. [13] However, while it is part of the response cycle, desire is believed to be distinct from genital sexual arousal. [3] It has also been argued that desire is not a distinct phase in sexual response, but rather something ...