Motivation Books

New and Published Books

1. Loneliness Updated

   Recent research on loneliness and how it affects our lives

   Edited by Ami Rokach

   "To be alone is to be different. To be different is to be alone, and to be in the interior of this fatal circle is to be lonely. To be lonely is to have failed" (Susan Schultz, 1976) Loneliness carries a significant social stigma, as lack of friendship and social ties is socially undesirable, and...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. Social and Motivational Compensatory Mechanisms for Age-Related Cognitive Decline

   Edited by Grzegorz Sedek, Paul Verhaeghen, Mike Martin

   Series: Special Issues of Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition

   Although many aspects of fluid cognition decline with advancing age, simple observation in the wild suggests that older adults, generally speaking, do very well in their day-to-day life. The study of the orchestration of cognitive, social, and motivational compensatory mechanisms in the service of...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press
3. Attention, Representation, and Human Performance

   Integration of Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation

   Edited by Slim Masmoudi, David Yun Dai, Abdelmajid Naceur

   This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North America share their research programs and findings revolving around an important theme: integration. Despite different research foci and methodologies, there is a strong consensus that we need to understand a...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Psychology Press
4. The Science of Giving

   Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity

   Edited by Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Christopher Y. Olivola

   Series: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Series

   Americans donate over 300 billion dollars a year to charity, but the psychological factors that govern whether to give, and how much to give, are still not well understood. Our understanding of charitable giving is based primarily upon the intuitions of fundraisers or correlational data which...

   Published October 20th 2010 by Psychology Press
5. Social Motivation

   Edited by David Dunning

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   Motivational science is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in social psychology, incorporating multiple perspectives from social-personality research. This volume provides students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of major topics in social motivation. All contributors are...

   Published October 11th 2010 by Psychology Press
6. Progress in Psychological Science around the World. Volume 1 Neural, Cognitive and Developmental Issues.

   Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology

   Edited by Qicheng Jing, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Gery d'Ydewalle, Houcan Zhang, Hsuan-Chih Chen, Kan Zhang

   Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and...

   Published July 26th 2006 by Psychology Press
7. Motivation and Emotion in Sport

   Reversal Theory

   By John H. Kerr

   Why did Michael Jordan quit basketball and take up baseball? Why was Martina Navratilova so successful as a professional tennis player? These and many other questions about aspects of motivation and emotion in sport are addressed in this book which is newly available in paperback. Reversal theory's...

   Published June 16th 1999 by Psychology Press