Sentence examples for defensive motivation from inspiring English sources

That provides a defensive motivation for guidance, even among those who do not want the path to the first rate rise to be any longer than it is now.

Media coverage of this possibility has focused on one defensive motivation, the desire to ensure that a potential Trump Administration could not pull the US out.

Most pleasant affects are held to be associated with the appetitive motivation system; unpleasant affects with defensive motivation [ 14].

Alternately they may feel fearful and try and control the fear unconsciously by denial, discounting or reactance against the threat (called defensive motivation or fear control responses).

This state of apparent threat arousal or defensive motivation may share properties in common with the emotions that humans subjectively experience as 'fear' or 'anxiety' (Phelps and LeDoux, 2005; LeDoux, 2012; Adolphs, 2013; Anderson and Adolphs, 2014).

Your first effort may provoke the person to up the ante by becoming more aggressive against you and defensive of his motivations.

During Jets game-plan installation meetings, I saw how it gave the defensive coaches a source of motivation: they called Fitzpatrick "Big Brain," and told their players they needn't worry, because, under pressure, what would he do — throw a book at them?

In the battle, the Reds, now on the defensive, had shown markedly increased motivation to fight.

The humans have a frankly genocidal attitude, while their enemy's motivations seem entirely defensive.

"If we had a better understanding of the enemy, and if we had sufficient determination and motivation to define the defensive lines," he wrote, "we would never have allowed the enemy to penetrate our Islamic society".

The motivation behind the NFL and MLB contracts is defensive: DirecTV is losing market share to cable, which can offer its subscribers a triple play of video, telephony and high-speed broadband.