Isn’t this kind of craving about avoiding negative valence? Having an addiction (a wanting) that’s not fulfilled is very unpleasant. My model of this is that the addiction starts from a model based place of choosing a behavior, then the pavlovian part takes offer as the behavior leads to a positive or avoiding a negative, then the model free system starts to get a handle on what’s happening with the palovian.
Ah yeah, this definitely describes my experiences with a lot of addiction-like behaviors. The behavior itself isn’t necessarily enjoyable, but not doing it feels aversive, and then there’s a craving to get rid of that aversive feeling.
Isn’t this kind of craving about avoiding negative valence? Having an addiction (a wanting) that’s not fulfilled is very unpleasant. My model of this is that the addiction starts from a model based place of choosing a behavior, then the pavlovian part takes offer as the behavior leads to a positive or avoiding a negative, then the model free system starts to get a handle on what’s happening with the palovian.
Ah yeah, this definitely describes my experiences with a lot of addiction-like behaviors. The behavior itself isn’t necessarily enjoyable, but not doing it feels aversive, and then there’s a craving to get rid of that aversive feeling.