Alexander Patricia A
Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA
Behav Brain Sci. 2025 Jan 31;48:e26. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X24000451.
In their article, Murayama and Jach contend that a mental computational model demonstrates that high-level motivations are emergent properties from underlying cognitive processes rather than instigators of behaviors. Despite points of agreement with the authors' critiques of the motivation literature, I argue that their claim of dismantling the black box of the human mind has been constructed on shaking grounds.
