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Attribution theory explains how people interpret the causes of events, and how those explanations shape emotion, motivation, and future behavior.
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Emotion regulation, affective learning, and self-evaluative states. This page currently lists 6 models.
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Dopamine reward prediction describes how the brain updates motivation and learning based on the gap between expected reward and actual reward.
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Emotional contagion is the spread of affect from one person or group to another through automatic mimicry, synchronization, and shared interpretation.
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Hedonic adaptation is the tendency for emotional reactions to gains and losses to fade over time as people return toward a relatively stable baseline of well-being.
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A persistent internal experience of feeling like a fraud — believing one's success is due to luck or deception rather than genuine ability, despite objective evidence of competence.
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Negativity bias is the tendency for negative events, cues, and emotions to command more attention, carry more weight, and persist longer than positive ones.
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