Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental, Fourth Edition - Softcover

Deckers, Lambert

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9780205941018: Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental, Fourth Edition

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ISBN 10: 020594101X ISBN 13: 9780205941018

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2013

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This book provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion. Well-grounded in the history of the field, the fourth edition of Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental combines classic studies with current research. The text provides an overarching organizational scheme of how motivation (the inducement of action, feelings, and thought) leads to behavior from physiological, psychological, and environmental sources. The material draws on topics that are familiar to students while maintaining a conversational tone to sustain student interest.

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Lambert Deckers is a professor of psychological science at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He teaches courses mainly in motivation & emotion, psychology of learning, and history and systems of psychology. Professor Deckers is a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science and has conducted research in the psychology of humor in the United States and Germany.

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