Motivation
Subtitle: a biosocial and cognitive integration of motivation and emotion
By: Eva Dreikurs Ferguson ; with chapter contribution by Beth Eva Ferguson Wee.
Contributors: Wee, Beth Eva Ferguson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Motivation (Psychology); Emotions.
Description: "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 concerning motivation and emotion are considered, including hunger and thirst, circadian and other biological rhythms, fear and anxiety, anger and aggression, achievement, attachment, and love. Goals and incentives are discussed in their application to work, child rearing, and personality. This book reviews an unusual breadth of research and provides the reader with the scientific basis for understanding motivation as a major variable in human and animal life. It also offers insights that can be applied to immediate and practical problems.

The book offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students a broad overview of motivation. It also is of value for the professional psychologist who seeks an integrated overview of the classical and contemporary literature in the field of motivation. The book provides information on a broad range of issues and thus can be used also as supplementary reading for courses on cognition and biological as well as social psychology."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-376) and index.