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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 August 2009
      18 February 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511499821
      9780521852593
      9780521149136
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499821
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 203 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.22kg, 526 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 203 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.06kg, 538 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Psychology
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    In this book Heckhausen and Heckhausen give an extensive and in-depth overview of the diverse lines of research in motivational psychology, in terms of its historical foundations, up-to-date conceptual developments and empirical research. The major classes of motivated behavior, such as achievement, affiliation and power, are addressed and the critical processes involved in motivation and volition are discussed in detail. Different conceptual and empirical lines of research, such as implicit/explicit motivation, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation/volition, causal attribution, childhood and lifespan development, education, personality and psychopathology are integrated and analyzed as to the common issues and phenomena they address, thus providing a most useful guideline for understanding debates in current motivational, educational and social psychology.

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    I am pleased with the additional strengths this text brings to the field, updating the original and expanding into new areas of research on motivation and action. The book provokes student thinking, challenges mainstream conceptions of motivation, and expands the motivational episode to include deliberate study of volitional dynamics in realized action. I recommend this book and think that readers will find it an excellent opportunity to re-examine and expand their assumptions about motivational dynamics.”– Mary McCaslin, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Arizona

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