Gordana Biernat is a writer and motivational speaker, based in Sweden, who shares motivational aphorisms to her followers @MyPowertalk.
These factors comprise the total motivational base of a desire.
Drawing upon Alfred Mele's work, Haji explains that a motivational base of any desire contains positive and negative elements that figure in the motivational strength of that desire.
On Haji's view, a desire is the same desire operative in different scenarios if one holds fixed the motivational base of the desire.
An addict's volitional desire, given such a strong motivational base for the drug, will react only to certain sorts of reasons (such as fear of immediate death).
The proximal desire (the mechanism) that Haji seeks to hold fixed in assessing reasons-responsiveness is fixed, on Haji's view, by a motivational base and an evaluative scheme.
(2002) found similar motivational bases for alcohol use in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Norway and the USA.
This project grew, from a continuing collaboration with respect to the behaviour of wood mice, and its motivational bases.
Several behaviour patterns may be linked by a high likelihood of transitions between them and, intuitively, these linked constellations may have shared motivational bases.
Moreover, previous research has found that a "family check-up" (a motivational interviewing based approach to increase parents' motivation and ability to recognize and intervene in their child's risk behavior) [ 22] may be effective for detained and incarcerated youth [ 23].
The present work sought to extend past research by (i) testing a model of motivational processes based on the tenets of self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan [1991. A motivational approach to self: Integration in personality. In R. Dienstbier (Ed)., Nebraska symposium on motivation. Vol. 38. Perceptives on motivation (pp. 237 288).
