Custers Ruud, Eitam Baruch, Higgins E Tory
Psychology Department, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Psychology Department, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Behav Brain Sci. 2025 Jan 31;48:e29. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X24000554.
Murayama and Jach argue that it is not clearly specified how motivation constructs produce behavior and that this black box should be unpacked. We argue that the authors overlook important classic theory and highlight recent research programs that already started unboxing. We feel that without relying on the mechanisms that such programs uncover, the proposed computational approach will be fruitless.
