@article{ref1,
title="Consequences of commitment to and disengagement from incentives",
journal="Psychological review",
year="1975",
author="Klinger, Eric",
volume="82",
number="1",
pages="1-25",
abstract="Proposes an integrative theoretical framework for studying psychological aspects of incentive relationships. During the time that an incentive is behaviorally salient, an organism is especially responsive to incentive-related cues. This sustained sensitivity requires postulating a continuing state (denoted by a construct, current concern) with a definite onset (commitment) and offset (consummation or disengagement). Disengagement follows frustration, accompanies the behavioral process of extinction, and involves an incentive-disengagement cycle of invigoration, aggression, depression, and recovery. Depression is thus a normal part of disengagement that may be either adaptive or maladaptive for the individual but is probably adaptive for the species. Implications for motivation; etiology, symptomatology, and treatment of depression; drug use; and other social problem areas are discussed. (41/2 p ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)<p />",
language="",
issn="0033-295X",
doi="10.1037/h0076171",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0076171"
}