"Maybe it's negative motivation, but when our guys stand up and say thanks, it is all worthwhile."

Like any pejorative term, it can be used as an ad hominem attack, suggesting a negative motivation.

Mrs. Cornett agrees, but she sees such negative motivation as one reason politics here has become so downright nasty.

In the best of all possible universes, devoid of all negative motivations, a helping hand would always be welcome.

Quite simply stated, there is no longer any incentive for those towns to act as tourist hosts, and in fact there is a negative motivation.

"A negative motivation?"

Doyle and Moeyn have noted that traditional methods tended to use anxiety as negative motivation (e.g. use of bad grades by teachers) as a method of getting students to work.

Accustomed to the negative motivation of Jeff Van Gundy, they seemed incapable of playing hard and winning consistently for Don Chaney without the threat of a tongue-lashing looming.