{"id":10,"date":"2008-06-18T14:27:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T21:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/18\/the-forgotten-amygdala\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T15:26:45","slug":"the-forgotten-amygdala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/18\/the-forgotten-amygdala\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Amygdala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that my <a href=\"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/motivation-vs-pleasure\/\">previous post<\/a> on the relationship between motivation and pleasure doesn&#8217;t account for fear as a motivator.  I&#8217;m inclined to think that those motivated by avoidance of negative outcomes are generally less successful than those that are motivated by the positive.  However, they are unlikely to have a spectacular failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that my previous post on the relationship between motivation and pleasure doesn&#8217;t account for fear as a motivator. I&#8217;m inclined to think that those motivated by avoidance of negative outcomes are generally less successful than those that are motivated by the positive. However, they are unlikely to have a spectacular failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[68,70,11,6,69,67,71,72,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}