@article{ref1,
title="The reward value of near-miss situations",
journal="Scandinavian journal of psychology",
year="2011",
author="Svartdal, Frode",
volume="52",
number="3",
pages="209-217",
abstract="What is a &quot;positive&quot; outcome? Clearly, obtaining something attractive is regarded as positive, but so is avoiding something negative. The present paper compared these two types of situations in scenario-type evaluations. Participants rated positive (P), avoiding negative (AN), and negative (N) outcomes in terms of luck (Experiment 1) and overall positive/negative evaluations (Experiments 2 and 3). The results demonstrated that evaluations of P and AN outcomes were judged as equally positive, but the emotional basis for these evaluations was very different: The feeling of relief was the dominating emotion in AN situations, whereas joy was the dominating emotion in P situations. Overall, these results indicate that avoidance-induced reward value may be important as a motivating factor in cognition and action.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0036-5564",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00860.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00860.x"
}