Basic Motivation and Human Behaviour [electronic resource] : Control, Affiliation and Self-expression

• Tác giả: Velibor Bobo Kovac
• ISBN-13: 978-1137470560
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 153 Conscious mental processes and intelligence
• Thông tin xuất bản: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Mô tả vật lý: V, 249 p. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 286514
• Chủ đề: 1. Cognitive psychology; 2. Difference (Psychology); 3. Emotions; 4. Personality; 5. Cognitive Psychology

Tóm tắt

This book explores how and why humans are motivated to act in the ways that they do. The chapters examine the origins of a given action rather than their superficial appearance, which can often be misleading. Kovac integrates the existing knowledge of the field of motivation into a greater theoretical framework by adopting both analytical and holistic perspectives. This theoretical framework suggests that all human behaviour evolves from the three fundamental underlying tendencies connected to the concepts of control, affiliation and self-expression that are further modified by the mechanism of balanced dual tension. These tendencies are conceptualised as systems of interrelated psychological needs that guide and govern a variety of human actions. As such, this book should be useful to upper-level students and researchers of cognitive and social psychology and all scholars interested in human motivation. .