Beyond pleasure and pain
Subtitle: how motivation works
By: E. Tory Higgins
Series: Oxford series in social cognition and social neuroscience
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9780199765829
Subjects: Motivation (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-523) and index.
Table of contents: title: Motivation beyond pleasure and pain; title: What is motivation?; title: Value, truth & control: ways of being effective; title: Value: having desired results; title: Truth: establishing what's real; title: Control: managing what happens; title: Value-truth relations: creating commitment; title: Value-control relations: it's the fit that counts; title: Truth-control relations: going in the right direction; title: Value-truth-control relations: organization of motives; title: Personality & culture: ways of seeing & coping with the world; title: Managing motives effectively: working backwards from what you want; title: What is the good life?: well-being from being effective.