Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick

Donald Laming0-631-21982-X, 0-631-21983-8

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.

---

Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Halftitle……Page 2
Inside Cover……Page 3
Copyright……Page 4
Contents……Page 5
Preface and Acknowledgments……Page 12
Introduction: Three Fundamental Ideas……Page 17
1 DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL……Page 27
2 TERROR……Page 37
3 SEX……Page 54
4 CONSCIOUSNESS……Page 76
5 BOREDOM……Page 97
6 SOCIAL CONVENTIONS……Page 119
7 THE RATE FOR THE JOB……Page 140
8 LONELINESS……Page 156
9 THE MORAL SANCTION……Page 172
10 PEER PRESSURE……Page 190
11 THE CROWD……Page 211
12 RAGE . . …….Page 226
13 . . . AND ARE WE PROVOKED TO VIOLENCE BY THE MEDIA?……Page 246
14 MONEY……Page 261
15 GAMBLING……Page 278
16 HUMAN MOTIVATION: HOW DOES IT WORK?……Page 294
REFERENCES……Page 300
INDEX……Page 318