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Motivational analyses of social behavior : building on Jack Brehm's contributions to psychology /

In honour of Jack Brehm's contributions to contemporary psychology, this volume revolves around the focus of most of his work - motivation and emotion in social context. It demonstrates Brehm's enormous influence on the field by highlighting how others have taken his ideas and expanded upo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wright, Rex A., Greenberg, Jeff, Brehm, Sharon S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Mahwah, N.J. ; London : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • About Jack
  • Biographical Sketch and Personal Perspectives / Rex A. Wright, Jeff Greenberg, and Sharon S. Brehm
  • Early Friendship Lasting / Peter Schubach
  • Influences
  • Dissonance Theory: History and Progress / Joel Cooper
  • From Cognitive Dissonance to the Motivational Functions of Emotions / Eddie Harmon-Jones
  • Self-Awareness, Self-Motives, and Self-Motivation / Paul J. Silvia and Thomas Shelley Duval
  • Willful Determinism: Exploring the Possibilities of Freedom / Sheldon Solomon, Tom Pyszczynski, and Jeff Greenberg
  • The Role of Distance in Valuing Another Person / Robert A. Wicklund
  • The Diamond in the Stone: Exploring the Place of Free Behavior in Studies of Human Rights and Culture / Stephen Worchel
  • Responses to Scarcity: A Commodity Theory Perspective on Reactance and Rumination / Timothy C. Brock and Philip J. Mazzocco
  • Risk and Reactance: Applying Social-Psychological Theory to the Study of Health Behavior / Frederick X. Gibbons, Meg Gerrard, and Elizabeth A. Pomery
  • From State to Trait and Back Again: Reactance Theory Goes Clinical / Varda Shoham, Sarah E. Trost, and Michael J. Rohrbaugh
  • Ability Perception Determinants of Effort-Related Cardiovascular Response: Mood, Optimism, and Performance Resources / Rex A. Wright and Jason Franklin
  • The Intensity of Motivation When the Self Is Involved: An Application of Brehm's Theory of Motivation to Effort-Related Cardiovascular Response / Guido H.E. Gendolla
  • The Self-Regulation of Goal Pursuit / Gabriele Oettingen, Caterina Bulgarella, Marlone Henderson, and Peter M. Gollwitzer
  • Reflections
  • Observations From Mount Oread / Jack W. Brehm.