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Mullins-Jaime C, Wachter JK. Motivating Personal Climate Action through a Safety and Health Risk Management Framework. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 20:7. [PMID: 36612328 PMCID: PMC9819491 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20010007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND There is overwhelming evidence the impacts of climate change present a probable threat to personal health and safety. However, traditional risk management approaches have not been applied to ameliorate the crises. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact on personal motivation for action of a communication intervention that framed climate change as a safety issue that can be mitigated through a safety and health risk management framework. Participants' perception of climate change in terms of its anthropogenicity, context and importance, perception as a personal threat, belief in the efficacy of human action, motivating drivers for action, knowledge of climate change impacts, perceived personal barriers to climate action, and short- and long-term preferences for mitigating actions were evaluated. In addition, this study assessed the role of personal worldview on motivation for climate action. METHODS Through an online survey instrument embedded with a communication/education intervention, data were collected from N = 273 participants. Pre and post-intervention responses were assessed using Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and descriptive statistics. A path analysis assessed the influence of anthropogenicity, personal impact, and human efficacy beliefs on participant motivation for action. Multi-regression analyses and descriptive statics were used to evaluate the role of worldview on participant motivation for climate action. RESULTS Personal motivation for action significantly increased post-intervention. Anthropogenicity, personal impact, and human efficacy beliefs were predictive of personal motivation. Those who prioritized climate change as a safety issue and those driven by a desire to protect current and future generations had higher levels of personal motivation, post-intervention. Knowledge of climate change increased, psychosocial factors as barriers to climate action decreased, and preferences for personal mitigating actions shifted towards more impactful choices post-intervention. Holding Egalitarian worldviews significantly predicted climate action motivation. CONCLUSION Presenting climate change and climate action strategies via a traditional health and safety risk management context was effective in increasing personal motivation for climate action. This study contributes to the literature on climate change communication and climate action motivation.
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- Charmaine Mullins-Jaime
- Department of Built Environment, Bailey College of Engineering & Technology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA
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- Safety Sciences Department, John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705, USA
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Chevalère J, Kirtay M, Hafner VV, Lazarides R. Who to Observe and Imitate in Humans and Robots: The Importance of Motivational Factors. Int J Soc Robot 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s12369-022-00923-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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AbstractImitation is a vital skill that humans leverage in various situations. Humans achieve imitation by observing others with apparent ease. Yet, in reality, it is computationally expensive to model on artificial agents (e.g., social robots) to acquire new skills by imitating an expert agent. Although learning through imitation has been extensively addressed in the robotic literature, most studies focus on answering the following questions: what to imitate and how to imitate. In this conceptual paper, we focus on one of the overlooked questions of imitation through observation: who to imitate. We present possible answers to the who-to-imitate question by exploring motivational factors documented in psychological research and their possible implementation in robotics. To this end, we focus on two critical instances of the who-to-imitate question that guide agents to prioritize one demonstrator over another: outcome expectancies, viewed as the anticipated learning gains, and efficacy expectations, viewed as the anticipated costs of performing actions, respectively.
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Kim Y, Kwon S, Rajan R, Mori C, Kojima S. Intrinsic motivation for singing in songbirds is enhanced by temporary singing suppression and regulated by dopamine. Sci Rep 2021; 11:20350. [PMID: 34645903 PMCID: PMC8514548 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99456-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Behaviors driven by intrinsic motivation are critical for development and optimization of physical and brain functions, but their underlying mechanisms are not well studied due to the complexity and autonomy of the behavior. Songbirds, such as zebra finches, offer a unique opportunity to study neural substrates of intrinsic motivation because they spontaneously produce many renditions of songs with highly-quantifiable structure for vocal practice, even in the absence of apparent recipients (“undirected singing”). Neural substrates underlying intrinsic motivation for undirected singing are still poorly understood partly because singing motivation cannot be easily manipulated due to its autonomy. Also, undirected singing itself acts as an internal reward, which could increase singing motivation, leading to difficulty in measuring singing motivation independent of singing-associated reward. Here, we report a simple procedure to easily manipulate and quantify intrinsic motivation for undirected singing independent of singing-associated reward. We demonstrate that intrinsic motivation for undirected singing is dramatically enhanced by temporary suppression of singing behavior and the degree of enhancement depends on the duration of suppression. Moreover, by examining latencies to the first song following singing suppression as a measure of singing motivation independent of singing-associated reward, we demonstrate that intrinsic singing motivation is critically regulated by dopamine through D2 receptors. These results provide a simple experimental tool to manipulate and measure the intrinsic motivation for undirected singing and illustrate the importance of zebra finches as a model system to study the neural basis of intrinsically-motivated behaviors.
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- Yunbok Kim
- Sensory and Motor Systems Research Group, Korea Brain Research Institute, 61, Cheomdan-ro, Dong-gu, Daegu, 41068, South Korea
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- Sensory and Motor Systems Research Group, Korea Brain Research Institute, 61, Cheomdan-ro, Dong-gu, Daegu, 41068, South Korea
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- Division of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Sensory and Motor Systems Research Group, Korea Brain Research Institute, 61, Cheomdan-ro, Dong-gu, Daegu, 41068, South Korea.
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Giustiniani J, Nicolier M, Teti Mayer J, Chabin T, Masse C, Galmès N, Pazart L, Trojak B, Bennabi D, Vandel P, Haffen E, Gabriel D. Behavioral and Neural Arguments of Motivational Influence on Decision Making During Uncertainty. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:583. [PMID: 32581698 PMCID: PMC7290000 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 05/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The scientific world is increasingly interested in motivation, primarily due to the suspected impact on decision-making abilities, particularly in uncertain conditions. To explore this plausible relationship, 28 healthy participants were included in the study and performed decision-making and motivational tasks while their neural activity was recorded. All participants performed the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and were split into two groups based on their score, one favorable group with 14 participants who performed advantageously and one undecided group with 14 participants who failed to develop the correct strategy on the IGT. In addition, all participants performed the Effort Expenditure for Reward Task (EEfRT), which defines the motivational level of each participant by the effort that participants agree to do in function of reward magnitudes and probabilities to receive these reward (10, 50, and 90%). The completion of both tasks allowed for the exploration of the relationship between the motivational level and decision-making abilities. The EEfRT was adapted to electroencephalography (EEG) recordings to explore how motivation could influence reward experience. Behavioral results showed no difference in EEfRT performances on the whole task between the two groups’ performances on the IGT. However, there was a negative correlation between the difficulty to develop an optimal strategy on the IGT and the percentage of difficult choices at the 90% condition on the EEfRT. Each probability condition has been previously associated to different motivational and emotional states, with the 90% condition associated to the reward sensitivity. This behavioral result leads to the hypothesis that reward sensitivity may induce an inability to develop an optimal strategy on the IGT. Group analysis demonstrated that only the undecided group showed a P300 during the processing of the outcome, whereas the favorable group showed a blunted P300. Similarly, there was a negative correlation between the P300 amplitude and the ability to develop an optimal strategy on the IGT. In conclusion, behavioral and neuronal data provides evidence that the propensity to focus only on the immediate outcomes is related to the development of an inefficient strategy on the IGT, without influence of motivation.
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- Julie Giustiniani
- Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.,Clinical Investigation Centre, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France
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- Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.,Clinical Investigation Centre, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,Neuroimaging and neurostimulation department Neuraxess, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.,Clinical Investigation Centre, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France
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- Fondation FondaMental, Hôpital Albert Chenevier, Créteil, France.,Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, University Hospital of Dijon, Dijon, France.,EA 4452, LPPM, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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- Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.,Fondation FondaMental, Hôpital Albert Chenevier, Créteil, France
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- Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.,Clinical Investigation Centre, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France
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- Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.,Clinical Investigation Centre, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,Fondation FondaMental, Hôpital Albert Chenevier, Créteil, France
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- EA 481, Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.,Clinical Investigation Centre, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,Neuroimaging and neurostimulation department Neuraxess, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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Bernacer J, Martinez-Valbuena I, Martinez M, Pujol N, Luis EO, Ramirez-Castillo D, Pastor MA. An amygdala-cingulate network underpins changes in effort-based decision making after a fitness program. Neuroimage 2019; 203:116181. [PMID: 31521824 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Revised: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 09/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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When humans make decisions, objective rewards are mainly discounted by delay, risk and effort. Whereas recent research has demonstrated that several brain areas process costs and code subjective value in effort-based decision making, it remains obscure how neural activity patterns change when effort costs are reduced due to the acquisition of healthy habits, such as moving from sedentary to active lifestyles. Here, a sample of sedentary volunteers was behaviorally assessed and fMRI-scanned before and after completing a 3-month fitness plan. The impact of effort cost on decisions, measured as the constant defining a hyperbolic decaying function, was reduced after the plan. A logistic mixed model demonstrated that the explanatory power of effort decreased with time. At a neural level, there was a marginally significant disruption of effort-cost related functional activity in the anterior cingulate after the plan. Functional connectivity between the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex was strengthened after habit acquisition. In turn, this interaction was stronger in those participants with lower effort discounting. Thus, we show for the first time changes in value-based decision making after moving from a sedentary to an active lifestyle, which points to the relevance of the amygdala-cingulate interplay when the impact of effort on decisions fades away.
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- Javier Bernacer
- University of Navarra, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Mind-Brain Group, 31008, Pamplona, Spain.
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- University of Navarra, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Mind-Brain Group, 31008, Pamplona, Spain.
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- University of Navarra, Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA), Neuroimaging Laboratory, 31008, Pamplona, Spain; University of Navarra, Education and Psychology, 31008, Pamplona, Spain.
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- University of Navarra, Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA), Neuroimaging Laboratory, 31008, Pamplona, Spain.
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- University of Navarra, Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA), Neuroimaging Laboratory, 31008, Pamplona, Spain; University of Navarra, Education and Psychology, 31008, Pamplona, Spain.
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- University of Navarra, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Mind-Brain Group, 31008, Pamplona, Spain; University of Navarra, Education and Psychology, 31008, Pamplona, Spain.
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- University of Navarra, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Mind-Brain Group, 31008, Pamplona, Spain; University of Navarra, Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA), Neuroimaging Laboratory, 31008, Pamplona, Spain.
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