Motivation and Emotion: Evolutionary, Physiological, Cognitive, and Social Influences / Edition 1

by David Edwards

Overview

David C. Edwards provides the best of contemporary findings and summarizes how past research contributes to current thought. Within each topically organized chapter, which all begin with a concise overview statement and end with a personal summary, the author highlights material of special importance and concludes major sections with a summary. Each chapter also ends with a set of questions that will help student readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761908326
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/23/1998
Series:	Advanced Psychology Text Series , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

David Edwards is University Counsellor at University of Sheffield, and a psychodynamic psychotherapist for Derbyshire Dales Community Mental Health Service.

Editorial Reviews

A college-level textbook which looks at the psychological theories behind motivation and emotion in a range of human activities and psychic states. After an introduction to motivation theory, 12 chapters discuss: physiology, rhythms, and sleep; eating; emotion; anger and aggression; pain, fear, and stress, sexual politics and biology; eros, love, and commitment; social interactions; motivated cognition; work; addiction; and play and leisure. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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