In order to successfully discover what the relationship between emotion and motivation is, it can be considered necessary to examine emotion and motivation individually, including understood the theoretical perspectives that surround them. This will therefore help us identify the possible link between the two as well as the psychological significance of it. Motivation as defined by the Oxford dictionary is one or more reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way and can therefore be our desire to achieve our goals, and it is what moves us to act to achieve those goals . There are many theoretical perspectives on motivation, including: Instinct theories, drive reduction theories, arousal theories, psychoanalytic theories, and humanistic theories. Instinct theories completely highlight the biology of motivation and assert that this type of motivation comes from our individual biological programming which is the same. between individuals of the same species. So this theory is about our motivation to survive and the fact that all organisms are born with specific hereditary knowledge about how to survive. Instincts can thus be called actions that arise from our genetic code. Drive reduction theories state that humans should try to maintain a constant calm or homeostasis in their body by trying to reduce the state of internal tension that will cause a person to act accordingly. tension. Theories of motivation are sometimes described as "push" theories, because motivation is often defined as pushing something toward its goal. However, many psychologists believe that all motivation does not require a "push," but rather incentives or rewards that can "pull" an organism toward its goal. These rewards can... middle of article ......-feedback theory formulated by William James if you smile you could possibly cure your depression because the brain can work cognitively and exert maximum pressure. -negative influence on our emotions and motivations. Motives and emotions both have in common their ability to arouse someone or something and stimulate behavior, but motivation, on the other hand, can accomplish this in a much more direct and precise way than emotions. In contrast, people who are motivated by a goal go out and achieve that goal whereas an emotion can stimulate a behavior and that behavior can manifest itself in various forms, and the way people respond can be very different. This can also be interpreted that the difference between emotion and motivation is that motivations tell the organism what it should do and emotions tell the organism what it should have done.