Motivation and Emotion

期刊简介：Motivation and Emotion publishes articles on human motivational and emotional phenomena that make theoretical advances by linking empirical findings to underlying processes. Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior.  Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.A range of methodological approaches are welcome, with methodological rigor as the key criterion.  Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles.  However, it is open to articles that focus on the post-validation contribution that a new measure can make.  Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.

【译文】动机与情感发表关于人类动机和情感现象的文章，通过将实证发现与潜在过程联系起来，在理论上取得进展。投稿应关注动机和情感的关键问题，如果使用非人类参与者，应有助于关于人类行为的理论。文章应具有解释性，而不仅仅是描述性，提供理解动机和情感起源、解释为什么、如何以及何时动机和情感状态发生变化以及证明这些过程对人类功能重要性的必要数据。欢迎各种方法论方法，方法论严谨性是关键标准。仅依赖自我报告数据的稿件是合适的，但发表的文章往往依赖于客观测量（例如，行为观察、生理心理反应、反应时间、脑活动以及表现或成就指标），这些测量可以是单独的或与自我报告数据相结合。该期刊通常不发表量表开发和验证文章。然而，它欢迎关注新测量在验证后可以做出的贡献的文章。因此，如果量表开发和验证工作作为后续研究（这些研究证明了新量表在理论进步中的重要性）的必要先决条件，则可以提交。