Thread by @amyalkon

Marco del Giudice #HBES2023 talking on a general architecture for motivation, emotion, & personality. Check out his terrific book, “Evolutionary Psychopatholgy.” Well-worth buying despite how academic books cost you several limbs and maybe a first-born child.

Mechanisms that support motivation and personality: reconstructing it from the bottom up, from the specific mechanisms. A mechanistic point of view. These models converge on motivational level of analysis of personality.

Slide is Lukaszewski et al 2020 - doing really breakthrough work in personality with an evolutionary foundation. Missing from social science, which is a huge error.

There are teams of emotions that arise around certain things: Pride, shame, anger in status competitions. -del Giudice #HBES2023

Extended coordination model.

Emotions are organized into themes and clusters based on motivational systems. Emotional systems drive the kind of emotion that’s triggered. -Marco del Giudice #HBES2023

Marco del Guidice’s proposed General Architecture of Motivation (GAM). And then IGPS (Instrumental Goal Pursuit System).