Social Motivation: Conscious and Unconscious Processes

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

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 409
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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

Contents......Page 8
About the Editors......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
Preface......Page 18
Social Motivation......Page 24
part i CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS SOCIAL MOTIVATION......Page 42
Multiple Goals, Optimal Motivation, and the Development of Interest......Page 44
The Machine in the Ghost......Page 63
Habits and the Structure of Motivation in Everyday Life......Page 78
Motivation in Social Settings......Page 94
Re.ection and Impulse as Determinants of Conscious and Unconscious Motivation......Page 114
The Role of Motivation in the Unconscious......Page 136
part ii SOCIAL MOTIVATION......Page 154
From Evolved Motives to Everyday Mentation......Page 156
Automatic Goal Inference and Contagion......Page 176
The Interaction Between Affect and Motivation in Social Judgments and Behavior......Page 191
Internal and External Encoding Style and Social Motivation......Page 217
Authenticity, Social Motivation, and Psychological Adjustment......Page 233
Motivation and Construct Accessibility......Page 251
part iii CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS SOCIAL MOTIVATION......Page 270
Self-Regulatory Processes in Interracial Interactions......Page 272
Exploring the Discrepancy Between Implicit and Explicit Prejudice......Page 297
Ostracism......Page 317
Attentional and Regulatory Mechanisms of Momentary Work Motivation and Performance......Page 337
Social Motivation and Object Relations......Page 355
To Know or Not to Know......Page 374
Author Index......Page 396
Subject Index......Page 406

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