In a good or a bad mood, focused or distracted, in dire or no need: our internal states directly influence our perceptions and decision-making. While the role of motivation on the performance of ...

Pat McAfee could feel Nick Saban getting uncomfortable. When ESPN’s College Gameday rolled into Tuscaloosa for Alabama-Texas, McAfee sat next to Saban on set. As McAfee praised the Alabama football’s ...

It is generally assumed that differences in the processing of salient information and the manifestation of motivated behavior are a product of variations in neurocircuitry. The contribution of sex to ...

Affective pain leads to inhibition of dopamine neurons decreasing motivation, but it can be restored. Washington University in St. Louis (MI, USA) researchers have uncovered the neuronal circuitry in ...