ABSTRACT
Our biosocial goals and motivations for (say) sex, status, attachments and achievements are guided by emotions. When we are successfully pursuing our biosocial goals and motivations we get a ¯ush of positive emotions, whereas when there are obstacles and threats we experience threat-based emotions. Research in emotional processing has revealed a number of integrated circuits in the brain that give rise to different types of emotion that regulate motivation (Panksepp, 1998).
