Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Profit motive is the desire to achieve financial gain that is behind the drive for profits ...

Calling consciousness an "entropic engine" points to something psychologically obvious: selfhood costs energy. Maintaining a stable "me" model across time, contexts, and internal contradictions ...

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What is the neuropsychological basis for the brain's ever-changing contextualized goals? I explore this question from the perspective of the Affect Management Framework (AMF).