Beyond pleasure and pain [electronic resource] : how motivation works / E. Tory Higgins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford series in social cognition and social neurosciencePublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: xiii, 554 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
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Contents:
Motivation beyond pleasure and pain -- What is motivation? -- Value, truth, and 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 and culture : ways of seeing and coping with the world -- Managing motives effectively : working backwards from what you want -- What is the good life? : well-being from being effective.
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Motivation beyond pleasure and pain -- What is motivation? -- Value, truth, and 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 and culture : ways of seeing and coping with the world -- Managing motives effectively : working backwards from what you want -- What is the good life? : well-being from being effective.

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