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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Immunol Allergy Clin North Am. 2009 May;29(2):247–264. doi: 10.1016/j.iac.2009.02.002

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Motivational model of sickness. Like fear, sickness has motivational properties in the sense that it organizes the organism’s functioning at three levels—subjective, behavioral, and visceral—so as to cope with the threat to which the organism is exposed.