This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an
overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental …

Integrating significant advances in motivation science that have occurred over the last two
decades, this volume thoroughly examines the ways in which motivation interacts with …

The past ten years have seen an explosion of useful research surrounding human
motivation and emotion; new insights allow researchers to answer the perennial questions …

Abstract Motivation: A Biosocial and Cognitive Integration of Motivation and Emotion shows
how motivation relates to biological, social, and cognitive issues. A wide range of topics …

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

Motivation is that which moves us to action. Human motivation is thus a complex issue, as
people are moved to action by both their evolved natures and by myriad familial, social and …

In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of
behaviour. Motivation is a temporal and dynamic state that should not be confused with …

This chapter provides a conceptual framework for understanding how implicit motivesthat is,
nonconsciously operating motivational dispositions for the attainment of certain classes of …

Motivation theories have tended to focus on specific motivations, leaving open the
intellectually and scientifically challenging problem of how to construct a general theory of …

Motivational theory has taken many forms throughout history, reflecting the scientific
paradigms and current concerns of the day. The result is a diverse array of theoretical …