Cognitive Agent Motivation

A Cognitive Agent Motivation is an agent motivation (reason for agent behavior) for a cognitive agent.

• AKA: Cognitive Agent Motive.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Person Motivation to bein an AI Agent Motivation.
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• Example(s):
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Non-Cognitive Agent Motivation, for a non-cognitive agent.
• See: Agent Choice, Agent Decision.

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References

2015

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/motivation#Noun
  1. Willingness of action especially in behavior
  2. The action of motivating.
  3. Something which motivates.
  4. An incentive or reason for doing something.
  5. (advertising) a research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.

     The motivation scores showed that 65% of people wanted to visit our website to learn more about the offer after watching the commercial.

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/motive#Noun
  1. An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. Template:Defdate

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     Many of them at first seemed kind to him, but it turned out their motives were not entirely altruistic.

  2. (legal) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour. Template:Defdate

     What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?

     No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.

2008

• (Tory & Pittman, 2008) ⇒ E. Tory Higgins, and Thane S. Pittman. (2008). “Motives of the Human Animal: Comprehending, Managing, and Sharing Inner States.” In: Annu. Rev. Psychol. 59

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