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Informationen zum Autor Joseph Paul Forgas is Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has a distinguished research record and has published some seventeen books and over 150 journal articles and chapters in some of the most selective journals in the field. His work has received widespread international recognition. Klappentext Groundbreaking research by leading international researchers on the nature! functions and characteristics of social motivation. Zusammenfassung This presents research by leading international researchers on the nature! functions and characteristics of social motivation. Contributors focus on a variety of issues! such as the functions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation! and the subtle roles that habits! goals! affect and effort play in producing and maintaining social behaviours. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Conscious and Unconscious Social Motivation: General Issue; 1. Social motivation: introduction and overview Joseph P. Forges, Kipling D.Williams and Simon M. Laham; 2. Multiple goals, optimal motivation, and the development of interest Judith M. Harackiewicz, Amanda M. Durik and Kenneth E. Barron; 3. The machine in the ghost: a dual process model of defence against conscious and unconscious death-related thought Tom Pyszcymski, Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon Solomon; 4. Habits and the structure of motivation in everyday life Wendy Wood and Jeffey M. Quinn; 5. Motivation in social settings: studies of effort-related cardiovascular arousal Guido H. E. Gendolla and Rex A. Wright; 6. Reflection and impulse as determinants of 'conscious' and 'unconscious' motivation Fritz Strack and Roland Deutsch; 7. The role of motivation in the unconscious: how our motives control the activation of our thoughts and shape our actions Steven J. Spencer, Steven Fein, Erin J. Strahan and Mark P. Zanna; Part II. Social Motivation: Cognitive and Affective Implications: 8. From evolved motives to everyday mentation: evolution, goals, and cognition Steven L. Neuberg, Douglas T. Kenrick, Jon K. Maner and Mark Schaller; 9. Automatic goal inference and contagion; on pursuing goals one perceives in other people's behaviour Henk Aarts and Ran R. Hassin; 10. The interaction between affect and motivation in social judgements and behaviour Joseph P. Forgas and Simon M. Laham; 11. Internal and external encoding style and social motivation Pawel Lewicki; 12. Authenticity, social motivation, and psychological adjustment Michael H. Kernis and Brian M. Goldman; 13. Motivation and construct accessibility; Part III. Conscious and Unconscious Social Motivation: Some Consequences and Applications; 14. Self-regulatory processes in interracial interactions: the role of internal and external motivation to respond without prejudice Patricia G. Devine, Amanda B. Brodish and Stephanie L. Vance; 15. Exploring the discrepancy between implicit and explicit prejudice: a test of aversive racism theory Leanne S. Son Hing, Greg A. Chung-Yan, Robert Grunfeld, Lori K. Robichaud and Mark P. Zanna; 16. Ostracism: when competing motivations collide Wayne A. Warburton and Kipling D. Williams; 17. Attentional and regulatory mechanisms of momentary work motivation and performance Howard M. Weiss, Neil A. Ashkanasy and Daniel J. Beal; 18. Social motivation and object relations: narcissism and interpersonal self-esteem regulation Frederick Rhodewalt; 19. To know and not to know: consciousness, meta-consciousness, and motivation Jonathan W. Schooler and Charles A. Schreiber....
