Donald Laming

Broschiertes Buch

Understanding Human Motivation

What Makes People Tick?

Beschreibung

Understanding Human Motivation is a lively presentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience, and society determine what we do.
Draws on many different domains of human behavior and links together many motivational factors such as fear, sex, consciousness, and rage.
Illustrates the theoretical bases of motivation through real-life examples and case studies.
Written in accessible manner for use in courses.

Autor

Donald Laming was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He has written several previous books, Information Theory of Choice-Reaction Times (1968), Mathematical Psychology (1973), Sensory Analysis (1986), and The Measurement of Sensation (1997).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780631219835
• ISBN-10: 0631219838
• Artikelnr.: 13632377

Rezensionen

"This new book on human motivation by Donald Laming represents a fresh look at an important area of psychology. The material is presented in the original idiom of real life stories in newspapers, which serve to illuminate classical controversies in social psychology. Although the book also has some novel theoretical insights, it should be particularly useful for students beginning in psychology." Trevor Robbins, University of Cambridge