Higgins | Beyond Pleasure and Pain | Buch | 978-0-19-935670-6 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 854 g

Higgins

Beyond Pleasure and Pain

How Motivation Works
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-935670-6
Verlag: OUP US

How Motivation Works

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 854 g

ISBN: 978-0-19-935670-6
Verlag: OUP US


How does motivation work? The classic answer is that people are motivated to approach pleasure and avoid pain, that they are motivated by "carrots and sticks." But to understand human motivation, it is necessary to go beyond pleasure and pain. What people want is to be effective in their life pursuits, and there are three distinct ways that people want to be effective. They want to be effective in having desired results (value), which includes having pleasure but is
not limited to pleasure. They want to be effective in managing what happens (control) and in establishing what's real (truth), even if the process of managing what happens or establishing what's real is painful. These three distinct ways of wanting to be effective go beyond just wanting pleasure, but
there is even more to the story of how motivation works. These ways of wanting to be effective do not function in isolation. Rather, they work together. Indeed, the ways that value, truth, and control work together is the central story of motivation. By understanding how motivation works as an organization of value, truth, and control motives, we can re-think basic motivational issues, such the nature of personality and culture, how the motives of others can be managed effectively, and what is
"the good life."

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E. Tory Higgins is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science (from the American Psychological Society), and the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. He is also a recipient of Columbia's Presidential Award for
Outstanding Teaching.



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