Even when self-report and projective measures of a given trait or motive both predict
theoretically related features of behavior, scores on the 2 tests correlate modestly with each …

In this chapter, we provide a primer on the social psychological study of power and capture
emerging themes that we think are likely to develop into the next wave of research on power …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

Power motivation/Eugene M. Fodor--The achievement motive: a review of theory and
assessment of n achievement, hope of success, and fear of failure/Joyce S. Pang--The …

The present chapter examines self‐regulation across the life span with a focus on
integrating cognition and emotion. First, we situate self‐regulation in a theoretical context …

The compensatory model of work motivation and volition synthesizes some previously
unrelated lines of research. The structural components of the model are implicit motives …

A functional framework explains the influence of implicit and explicit motives on
autobiographical memory. Personality motives at different levels of awareness 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 …

This research examined how implicit and self-attributed needs to achieve (labeled as n Ach
and san Ach, respectively) combine with self-referenced and norm-referenced feedback to …

Zusammenfassung Im Mittelpunkt dieses Kapitels steht „die “Leistungsmotivationstheorie
Atkinsons (1957), einschließlich ihrer Vorläuferarbeiten bei McClelland, Atkinson, Clark und …