Gebundenes Buch

Motivation and Its Regulation

The Control Within

Herausgeber: Forgas, Joseph P.; Harmon-Jones, Eddie

Beschreibung

This book surveys the most recent psychological research on how motivational processes are regulated in daily life to achieve desired outcomes.Contributors are all leading international investigators, who examine key issues about motivation, including self-control, the role of affect and cognition, conscious and unconscious processes, physiology, aggression, perception and attention, and social, cultural and interpersonal effects. It may be used on courses in motivational science, and will also be of interest to students and professionals in clinical, counseling, educational, organizational, marketing and industrial psychology.

Autor

Joseph P. Forgas is Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He received his D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford, and a D.Sc degree also from Oxford. His research investigates affective influences on social cognition, motivation and behavior. He has published 26 books and over 200 journal articles and book chapters. He received the Order of Australia in 2012, as well as the APS's Distinguished Scientific contribution Award, the Humboldt Research Prize, and is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Association for Psychological Science, Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Eddie Harmon-Jones is Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. His research focuses on emotions and motivations, their implications for social and cognitive processes, and their underlying neural circuits. He has published over 150 articles and book chapters and four books. He received the Award for Distinguished Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology from the Society for Psychophysiological Research (2002), and the Career Trajectory Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (2012). He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Psychology Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9781848725614
• ISBN-10: 1848725612
• Artikelnr.: 39613090