Weiner introduces--and offers his own motivation for producing--this most impressive work
with the following: There are two distinct approaches to the study of motivation. One …

The present book is intended to be a systematic treatment of the facts and problems of
human motivation. It attempts to answer certain questions which are of the utmost practical …

First published in 1958 with a second edition in 1969, The Concept of Motivation looks
philosophically and psychologically at the idea of motivation in order to explain human …

Motivation is treated not as any unique physiological or psychological process, but rather as
a class of phenomena, including the behavioral aspects of exploration, fear, hunger, sex and …

Human Motivation, originally published in 1987, offers a broad overview of theory and
research from the perspective of a distinguished psychologist whose creative empirical …

This article presents an outline of a theory of human motivation that draws on biological,
psychological, and social processes. It focuses on the following issues:(1) the intrinsic …

There are 16 chapters plus a bibliography-author index and a subject index. The former
includes about 2300 references. Chapter topics include historical perspective, instinct …

Abstract [This book presents] explanations of motivation, using an eclectic framework that
balances biological, behavioral, and cognitive theories. Not only are these theories …

A text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students primarily oriented toward
experimental rather than clinical and personality research. Among the topics considered are …

This text introduces motivation as a process in which the individual's needs are expressed
as goals for behavior in social situations. The author uses an overall approach to motivation …