Social Motivation
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Social Motivation

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Social Motivation

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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 renowned specialists in their field who provide in-depth and integrated coverage of the major empirical and theoretical contributions in their area.

Social Motivation is essential reading for all social psychologists with an interest in social-motivational processes, and will also be of interest to people working in political science and cultural studies looking for a psychological perspective to work in their field.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9781136847196
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Frontiers of Social Psychology
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. About the Editor
  8. Contributors
  9. 1 Social Motivation: Some Introductory Notes
  10. 2 Interpersonal Threats and Automatic Motives
  11. 3 Belonging Motivation: Establishing, Maintaining, and Repairing Relational Value
  12. 4 Cultural Variation in the Motivation of Self-Expression
  13. 5 Sharing Motivation
  14. 6 Four Forms of Prosocial Motivation: Egoism, Altruism, Collectivism, and Principlism
  15. 7 Why Do People Get Involved? Motivations for Volunteerism and Other Forms of Social Action
  16. 8 Understanding the Psychology of Trust
  17. 9 Social Endocrinology: Hormones and Social Motivation
  18. 10 Power Basis Theory: A Psychoecological Approach to Power
  19. 11 System Justification Theory as Compliment, Complement, and Corrective to Theories of Social Identification and Social Dominance
  20. Author Index
  21. Subject Index