Social Motivation: Conscious and Unconscious Processes

by Edited by Joseph P. Forgas , Kipling D. Williams , Simon M. Laham

• ISBN13: 9780521114134
• ISBN10: 0521114136
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book presents ground-breaking research by leading international researchers on the nature, functions and characteristics of social motivation. Its contributors focus on a variety of issues, such as the functions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and the subtle roles that habits and goals play in producing and maintaining motivated social behaviors. Recent discoveries in the psychology of motivation relevant to everyday social behaviors and clinical, organizational, educational and counseling practices receive particular attention.

Table of Contents

Preface

Conscious and Unconscious Social Motivation: General Issue

Social motivation: introduction and overview

Multiple goals, optimal motivation, and the development of interest

The machine in the ghost: a dual process model of defence against conscious and unconscious death-related thought

Habits and the structure of motivation in everyday life Wendy Wood

Motivation in social settings: studies of effort-related cardiovascular arousal Guido

Reflection and impulse as determinants of 'conscious' and 'unconscious' motivation

The role of motivation in the unconscious: how our motives control the activation of our thoughts and shape our actions

Social Motivation: Cognitive and Affective Implications

From evolved motives to everyday mentation: evolution, goals, and cognition

Automatic goal inference and contagion on pursuing goals one perceives in other people's behaviour Henk Aarts

The interaction between affect and motivation in social judgements and behaviour

Internal and external encoding style and social motivation

Authenticity, social motivation, and psychological adjustment

Motivation and construct accessibility

Conscious and Unconscious Social Motivation: Some Consequences and Applications

Self-regulatory processes in interracial interactions: the role of internal and external motivation to respond without prejudice

Exploring the discrepancy between implicit and explicit prejudice: a test of aversive racism theory

Ostracism: when competing motivations collide

Attentional and regulatory mechanisms of momentary work motivation and performance

Social motivation and object relations: narcissism and interpersonal self-esteem regulation

To know and not to know: consciousness, meta-consciousness, and motivation

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