This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an
overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental�…

Integrating significant advances in motivation science that have occurred over the last two
decades, this volume thoroughly examines the ways in which motivation interacts with�…

The past ten years have seen an explosion of useful research surrounding human
motivation and emotion; new insights allow researchers to answer the perennial questions�…

" I think David C. Edwards does a very good job of covering the material. The writing style is
consistently clear, direct and interesting. Research findings are clearly presented and clearly�…

Abstract [This book presents] explanations of motivation, using an eclectic framework that
balances biological, behavioral, and cognitive theories. Not only are these theories�…

Motivation is that which moves us to action. Human motivation is thus a complex issue, as
people are moved to action by both their evolved natures and by myriad familial, social and�…

In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of
behaviour. Motivation is a temporal and dynamic state that should not be confused with�…

This chapter provides a conceptual framework for understanding how implicit motivesthat is,
nonconsciously operating motivational dispositions for the attainment of certain classes of�…

Motivation theories have tended to focus on specific motivations, leaving open the
intellectually and scientifically challenging problem of how to construct a general theory of�…

In this chapter, we address what psychologists have contributed to the understanding of
motivational processes. Motivation is the study of why individuals or organisms behave as�…