Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick?

Understanding Human Motivation is a lively presentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience, and society determine what we do. Donald Laming draws on laboratory experiments, social surveys, and a large and varied collection of anecdotes to explore the driving forces behind many different domains of human behavior, both individual and social. The book not only discusses such obvious topics as fear, sex, boredom, rage, and money, but also covers underlying issues such as free will, consciousness, the psychological basis of ethics, and the extent to which behavior is shaped by the society into which we are born and the people around us. The discussion is illustrated throughout by real–life examples that relate psychological theory to what people do in their everyday lives.

Spis treści:
Preface and Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Three Fundamental Ideas.
1. Determinism And Free Will.
2. Terror.
3. Sex.
4. Consciousness.
5. Boredom.
6. Social Conventions.
7. The Rate For The Job.
8. Loneliness.
9. The Moral Sanction.
10. Peer Pressure.
11. The Crowd.
12. Rage.And Are We Provoked To Violence By The Media?.
13. Money.
14. Gambling.
15. Human Motivation: How Does It Work?.
16. References.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
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).

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Understanding Human Motivation is a lively presentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience, and society determine what we do. Donald Laming draws on laboratory experiments, social surveys, and a large and vari ed collection of anecdotes to explore the driving forces behind many different domains of human behavior, both individual and social. The book not only discusses such obvious topics as fear, sex, boredom, rage, and money, but also covers underlying issues such as free will, consciousness, the psychological basis of ethics, and the extent to which behavior is shaped by the society into which we are born and the people around us. The discussion is illustrated throughout by real–life examples that relate psychological theory to what people do in their everyday lives.