Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick? - Brossura

Laming, Donald

 
9780631219835: Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick?

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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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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).

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Understanding Human Motivation is a lively presentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience, and society determine what we do. Donald Laming draws on laboratory experiments, social surveys, and a large and varied collection of anecdotes to explore the driving forces behind many different domains of human behavior, both individual and social. The book not only discusses such obvious topics as fear, sex, boredom, rage, and money, but also covers underlying issues such as free will, consciousness, the psychological basis of ethics, and the extent to which behavior is shaped by the society into which we are born and the people around us. The discussion is illustrated throughout by real-life examples that relate psychological theory to what people do in their everyday lives.

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9780631219828: Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick?

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  063121982X ISBN 13:  9780631219828
Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2003
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