...coincidence. " Prof. Baldwin1 now goes a step farther by what lie calls the " Motor Excess," and says that pleasure and pain can be agents of accommodation and development only if the one, pleasure, carries with it the phenomenon of 'motor excess,' the other, pain, the reverse. Then he asks why certain...

...pleasurable. We may call this, then, for convenience, the principle of ' Motor Excess,' and say that pleasure and pain can be agents of accommodation and...form of inhibition or of antagonistic contraction. Our question then is this : What is the reason that the movements which are accidentally more adaptive...

...which I now reserve — we may call this for convenience the principle of ' Motor Excess,' and say that pleasure and pain can be agents of accommodation and...form of inhibition or of antagonistic contraction. On this basis Darwin's well-known 'laws ' get their application.* What has this to do with emotion...

...call this, then, for convenience, the principle of F.xress/ and say that pleasure and pain can beS ' agents of accommodation and development only if the...form of inhibition or of antagonistic contraction. Our question then is this : What is the reason that the njpvements which are accidentally more adaptive...

...adopts essentially the same view as regards the mechanism of reinforcement and inhibition. With Bam and Spencer, Baldwin assumes that " the pleasure resulting...of behavior, not through the influence of certain psychic states, but as the effect of the physiological conditions of which these states are the concomitants....

...physiology of the pleasure-pain response have been given by Bain and by Baldwin, the latter declaring that "pleasure and pain can be agents of accommodation...of inhibition or of antagonistic contraction." The physiological concomitants of pleasure and pain have afforded a subject for numerous laboratory studies...