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.
Beyond pleasure and pain : how motivation works by E. Tory Higgins. ISBN 9780199356706. Published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.