| The response is typically enhanced during aversive emotions and diminished during appetitive emotions. |
| It should not be inferred that this appetitive tendency to change is entirely mechanistic, entirely governed by efficient causation only. |
| It is an early modern concept, although it has correlatives from the time of the Greeks in allied concepts of stress, debility, appetitive, and saturnine behaviour. |
| Cardiac rate may be a relatively nonspecific indicator of appetitive or aversive arousal in animals confronted with salient valanced stimuli. |
| The greatest good, the genuine good, is not the sum of appetitive desires. |
| For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch. |
