Overview
- Comprehensive coverage of history and up-to-date theories and empirical study of motivation
- Covers international research on motivation, including European approaches
- Focuses on human motivation, including biological and higher-order processes involved
- Indispensable reference for researchers
- Chapters highly accessible for students at upper-division undergraduate and graduate level
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Topics featured in this text include:
- Social Relationshipsand its effects on sexual or intimacy motivation.
- Conscious and unconscious motivators of behavior.
- Drives and incentives in the fields of achievement, intimacy, sociability and power.
- How the biochemistry and structures of our brain shapes motivated behavior.
- How to engage in intentional goal-directed behavior.
- The potential and limits of motivation and self-direction in shaping our lives.
Motivation and Action, Third Edition, is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the fields of motivation psychology, cognitive psychology, and social psychology, as well as personality psychology and agency.
About the Editor:
Jutta Heckhausen is the daughter of Heinz Heckhausen, who published "Motivation and Action” as a monograph in 1980 and who died in 1988 just before the 2nd edition came out. Dr. Heckhausen received her Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow with a dissertation about early mother-child interaction, and did her Habilitation in 1996 at the Free University of Berlin with a monograph about developmental regulation in adulthood. Dr. Heckhausen worked for many years at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, conducting research about the role of motivation in lifespan development. She is currently a professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Motivation and Action
Editors: Jutta Heckhausen, Heinz Heckhausen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65094-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65093-7Published: 12 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09732-5Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65094-4Published: 27 March 2018
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XV, 909
Number of Illustrations: 159 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: The 2nd Edition was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. The 1st Edition was published in 1991 by Springer-Verlag.
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, General Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology