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(s): Donald Laming
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 328
Cover......Page 1
Halftitle......Page 2
Inside Cover......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Three Fundamental Ideas......Page 17
1 DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL......Page 27
2 TERROR......Page 37
3 SEX......Page 54
4 CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 76
5 BOREDOM......Page 97
6 SOCIAL CONVENTIONS......Page 119
7 THE RATE FOR THE JOB......Page 140
8 LONELINESS......Page 156
9 THE MORAL SANCTION......Page 172
10 PEER PRESSURE......Page 190
11 THE CROWD......Page 211
12 RAGE . . .......Page 226
13 . . . AND ARE WE PROVOKED TO VIOLENCE BY THE MEDIA?......Page 246
14 MONEY......Page 261
15 GAMBLING......Page 278
16 HUMAN MOTIVATION: HOW DOES IT WORK?......Page 294
REFERENCES......Page 300
INDEX......Page 318
