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Originally published in 1982, this book examines the current status of expectancy-value models in psychology. The focus is upon cognitive models that relate action to the perceived attractiveness or aversiveness of expected consequences.
List of contents
Preface. 1. Introduction and Overview
Norman T. Feather Part 1: The Context of Achievement Motivation 2. Old and New Conceptions of How Expected Consequences Influence Actions
John W. Atkinson 3. Actions in Relation to Expected Consequences: An Overview of a Research Program
Norman T. Feather 4. Future Orientation, Self-Evaluation, and Achievement Motivation: Use of an Expectancy x Value Theory of Personality Functioning and Change
Joel O. Raynor 5. The Expectancy-Value Approach within the Theory of Social Motivation: Elaborations, Extensions, Critique
Julius Kuhl Part 2: The Context of Attribution Theory 6. An Attributionally Based Theory of Motivation and Emotion: Focus, Range, and Issues
Bernard Weiner Part 3: The Context of Information Feedback 7. Expectation and What People Learn from Failure
Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and Philip Brickman Part 4: The Context of Social Learning Theory 8. Social Learning Theory
Julian B. Rotter Part 5: The Context of Values and Attitudes 9. Human Values and the Prediction of Action: An Expectancy-Valence Analysis
Norman T. Feather Part 6: The Context of Organizational Psychology 10. Expectancy-Value Models in Organizational Psychology
Terence R. Mitchell Part 7: The Context of Decision Making 11. The Experienced Utility of Expected Utility Approaches
Baruch Fischhoff, Bernard Goitein, and Zur Shapira 12. Conflict Theory of Decision Making and the Expectancy-Value Approach
Leon Mann and Irving Janis 13. Expectancy-Based Decision Schemes: Sidesteps Toward Applications
Barbara H. Beach and Lee Roy Beach 14. Expectancy-Value Approaches: Present Status and Future Directions
Norman T. Feather. Author Index. Subject Index.
About the author
Norman T. Feather, Emeritus Professor, Flinders University, Australia
