Beyond pleasure and pain : how motivation works / E. Tory Higgins, Columbia University.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Oxford series in social cognition and social neurosciencePublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.Description: xiii, 554 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780199356706
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153.7 MAT Foundations of sensation and perception / | 153.733 GOL Focus : the hidden driver of excellence / | 153.8 DEC Motivation : biological, psychological, and environmental / | 153.8 HIG Beyond pleasure and pain : | 153.8 KAM பக்தியும் பகுத்தறிவும் : | 153.9 STE The Nature of Human Intelligence : | 153.93 STE Personality and intelligence / |
Motivation beyond pleasure and pain -- What is motivation? -- Value, truth & control : ways of being effective -- Value : having desired results -- Truth : establishing what's real -- Control : managing what happens -- Value-truth relations : creating commitment -- Value-control relations : it's the fit that counts -- Truth-control relations : going in the right direction -- Value-truth-control relations : organization of motives -- Personality & culture : ways of seeing & coping with the world -- Managing motives effectively : working backwards from what you want -- What is the good life? : well-being from being effective.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-523) and index.
How does motivation work? Scientific research shows that people are motivated to be effective in different ways that go beyond the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. In this text, E. Tory Higgins provides a new theory of motivation that argues that people are motivated by the pursuit of value, truth, and control.
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