Motivation and Action /

Abstract

This new edition pursues the same goals as the earlier edition. It seeks to disentangle convoluted perspectives within the psychology of motivation. It seeks to integrate separate research strands by pointing to common issues and offering a unifying conceptual framework. It introduces and critically discusses new research findings that have proven particularly fruitful. As in the previous editions, the motivational categories examined are limited to classes of behavior that are characteristic of humans. The individual chapters build on one another, but each can also be read and understood independently.