Motivation beyond pleasure and pain
What is motivation?
Value, truth & control: ways of being effective
Value: having desired results
Truth: establishing what's real
Control: managing what happens
Value-truth relations: creating commitment
Value-control relations: it's the fit that counts
Truth-control relations: going in the right direction
Value-truth-control relations: organization of motives
Personality & culture: ways of seeing & coping with the world
Managing motives effectively: working backwards from what you want
What is the good life?: well-being from being effective.
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Beyond pleasure and pain : how motivation works by E. Tory Higgins. ISBN 9780199765829. Published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
