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Motivation

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  • Motivationby Roderick Wong

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 65.00

    Why do animals including humans exhibit motivated behaviours such as fear, aggression, sexual behaviour and parental care? This book provides an integrated and coherent account of motivational systems in animals and humans for students of psychology and behaviour alike. more...

  • Progress in Reversal Theoryby M.J. Apter; J.H. Kerr; M.P. Cowles

    Elsevier Science & Technology 1988; US$ 110.00

    Reversal Theory is a new general theory of motivation, emotion, personality, psychopathology and stress which challenges previous ideas in these fields and sets up an unusually broad and integrative conceptual framework of its own. The papers in the six sections which make up this volume are concerned with: - developing the theory itself - looking at different research areas, or psychological problems, from the perspective of reversal theory - describing empirical studies of different kinds aimed at testing ideas drawn from the theory. more...

  • Full Steam Ahead!by Ken Blanchard; Jesse Lyn Stoner

    Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2011; US$ 22.95

    The lessons of Full Steam Ahead! are revealed through the inspirational story of two people who were able to create a vision for the place they worked and for their own lives. Jim Carpenter, president of a mid-sized insurance agency, didn't get the "vision thing." The agency was doing well, but Jim had a strong sense that things could be much better. Ellie Atkins offered a fresh perspective. Together they discover the three elements of a compelling vision: a significant purpose, clear values, and a picture of the future. They also discover how to ensure that the vision comes alive through understanding the principles of: how it is created, how it is communicated and how it is lived and demonstrate that vision is not only necessary, but also... more...

  • Shopping with Freudby Rachel Bowlby

    Routledge 1993; US$ 39.95

    A look at some of the ways in which the consumer subject appears in a range of writings - from literature to marketing to psychology. Bowlby examines the arguments and assumptions about the values of the consumer culture. more...

  • Motivation and Emotionby Philip Gorman

    Routledge 2003; US$ 18.00

    Explores the relationship between the brain and our motivation to do things, analysing psychological, physiological and combined approaches. more...

  • Evidence Based Coaching Handbookby Dianne R. Stober; Anthony M. Grant

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 63.50

    The first reference to bring scientifically proven approaches to the practice of personal and executive coaching The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook applies recent behavioral science research to executive and personal coaching, bringing multiple disciplines to bear on why and how coaching works. A groundbreaking resource for this burgeoning profession, this text presents several different coaching approaches along with the empirical and theoretical knowledge base supporting each. Recognizing the special character of coaching-that the coaching process is non-medical, collaborative, and highly contextual-the authors lay out an evidence-based coaching model that allows practitioners to integrate their own expertise and the needs of their... more...

  • Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotionsby Bernard Weiner

    Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005; US$ 24.95

    Appealing to practicing and research psychologists and advanced students in many fields, this book, that is divided into five chapters, proposes an attribution theory of interpersonal or social motivation that distinguishes between the role of thinking and feeling in determining action. more...

  • Who am I?: 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions Define Our Personaby Steven Reiss

    Penguin Group Inc. 2002; US$ 13.99

    Sex? Social standing? Social justice? With this breakthrough study of the motivational forces behind human behavior, and grounded in the most up-to-date psychological research available, Dr. Steven Reiss explains the 16 desires and values that shape our behavior-and shows how the ways we prioritize them determines our personality. "Well-explained in lay readers' terms." ( Library Journal ) "An exciting new way to think about ourselves, an authoritative, research-based understanding of why we do the things we do." (Ellen Langer, Ph.D., author of Mindfulness ) "Offers valuable insight into such matters as why some interpersonal relationships are enduringly satisfying and others are not." (Professor Richard J. McNally, Harvard University)... more...

  • The Capacity to Careby Wendy Hollway; Jane Ussher

    Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 29.95

    Provides a unique theorization of the nature of selfhood, drawing on developmental and object relations psychoanalysis, philosophical and feminist literatures. more...

  • Interestby Richard Swedberg

    McGraw-Hill Education 2005; US$ 39.98

    Gives a history of the concept of interest. This work includes a chapter on the emergence of social science concept of interest during the nineteenth century. It presents a discussion of difficulties using the concept of interest efficiently and an exploration of its policy, science, potential, and use. more...