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9780470773383

Understanding Human Motivation What Makes People Tick

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470773383

  • ISBN10:

    0470773383

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-02-11
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Understanding Human Motivation is a lively presentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience, and society determine what we do.

  • Draws on many different domains of human behavior and links together many motivational factors such as fear, sex, consciousness, and rage.
  • Illustrates the theoretical bases of motivation through real-life examples and case studies.
  • Written in accessible manner for use in courses.

Author Biography

Donald Laming was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He has written several previous books, Information Theory of Choice-Reaction Times (1968), Mathematical Psychology (1973), Sensory Analysis (1986), and The Measurement of Sensation (1997).

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Three Fundamental Ideas.

1. Determinism And Free Will.

2. Terror.

3. Sex.

4. Consciousness.

5. Boredom.

6. Social Conventions.

7. The Rate For The Job.

8. Loneliness.

9. The Moral Sanction.

10. Peer Pressure.

11. The Crowd.

12. Rage.And Are We Provoked To Violence By The Media?.

13. Money.

14. Gambling.

15. Human Motivation: How Does It Work?.

16. References.

Index.

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