Motivation and Its Regulation

This book surveys the most recent psychological research on how motivational processes are regulated in daily life to achieve desired outcomes.Contributors are all leading international investigators, who examine key issues about motivation, including self-control, the role of affect and cognition, conscious and unconscious processes, physiology, aggression, perception and attention, and social, cultural and interpersonal effects. It may be used on courses in motivational science, and will also be of interest to students and professionals in clinical, counseling, educational, organizational, marketing and industrial psychology.

Motivation and Its Control: Introduction and Overview, E. Harmon-Jones, J.P. Forgas. Part 1. Introduction and Basic Issues. Beyond Pleasure and Pain: Value from Engagement, E.T. Higgins. The Evolutionary Unconscious: From 'Selfish Genes' to 'Selfish Goals', J.A. Bargh, J.Y. Huang. Dual Process Models and Serotonergic Functioning: Impulse and Self-Control, C.S. Carver, S.L. Johnson, J. Joormann. Imagination and Behavioral Control. C.N. Macrae, B.M. Christian, L.K. Miles. The Ego Fixation Hypothesis: Involuntary Persistence of Self-Control, S.L. Koole, M. Tops, S. Strübin, J. Bouw, I.K. Schneider, N.B. Jostmann. Part 2. Affective Mechanisms and Affect Control. No Pain, No Gain: How Distress Underlies Effective Self-control (and Unites Diverse Social Psychological Phenomena), M. Inzlicht, L. Legault. The Relationship Between Individual Differences in Executive Functioning and Emotion Regulation: A Comprehensive Review, B.J. Schmeichel, D. Tang. The Regulation of Vision: How Motivation and Emotion Shape What We See, S.B. Most. On the Regulatory Functions of Mood: Affective Influences on Memory, Judgments and Behavior, J.P. Forgas. Psychological and Biological Mechanisms Underlying Control Over Anger and Aggression, T.F. Denson. Part 3. Approach and Avoidance Processes in Social Motivation. The Embodiment of Approach Motivation, E. Harmon-Jones, T.F. Price, C. Harmon-Jones. Avoidance Motivation is Resource Depleting, A.J. Elliot, J. Schüler, M. Roskes, C.K.W. De Dreu. When Saying Yes to the Doughnut Is Not Saying No To Self-control: A Hierarchical Approach to Flexibility in Conflict Representation, A.A. Scholer. Motivated Distance Perception Serves Action Regulation, E. Balcetis, S.Cole. Part 4. Interpersonal, Social and Cultural implications. Sex, Love, Temptation: Human Mating Motives and their Regulation, J.K. Maner, J.Leo. The Natural Order of Things: The Motivated Underpinnings of Naturalistic Explanations for Inequality, J.L. Napier. Cultural Neuroscience of Choice Justification, S. Kitayama, S. Tompson, H.F. Chua. Scaring the Bejesus into People: The Role of Religious Belief in Managing Implicit and Explicit Anxiety, J. Halberstadt, J. Jong. 'It Is Better to Give Than to Receive': The Role of Motivation and Self-control in Determining the Consequences of Ostracism for Targets and Sources, L. Zadro, A. Godwin, K. Gonsalkorale.