A force-field theory of motivated cognition is presented and applied to a broad variety of
phenomena in social judgment and self-regulation. Purposeful cognitive activity is assumed …

Describes how the concept of motivation in American psychology has broadened to include
cognitive aspects. Strict behaviorism and stimulus-response theory was inadequate to deal …

In this chapter, the authors describe a research program premised on the notion that the
cognitive treatment affords conceptual and methodological advantages enabling new …

The apparent success of cognitive principles in accounting for several behaviors has led
social psychologists to question the need for motivations and other" hot" dispositional …

The Fox had gone without breakfast as well as without dinner, so when he found himself in a
vineyard his mouth began to water. There was one particularly juicy-looking bunch of grapes …

Why should cognitive psychologists be concerned with motivation? In the typical cognitive
psychology formulation, motivation is not a theoretically interesting or important variable …

It is self‐evident that resource allocation is better understood when a distinction is made
between what people are willing to do to achieve a purpose and what they will do to achieve …

This paper summarizes and integrates research concerned with a long-neglected topic in
psychology: the relationship between conscious goals and intentions and task performance …

Abstract relate motivational phenomena (eg, choice, persistence, effort) and motivational
constructs (eg, value, expectancy, wish, intention) to several cognitive structures and …

Cognitive Views of Human Motivation contains papers that were first presented during a
symposium at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of …