Although a growing number of researchers emphasize the social and psychocultural aspects of motivation and motivation theory, few books have provided much coverage beyond well-tread studies of physiological and biological factors and theories.
Motivation and Culture brings together eighteen writers with a variety of academic backgrounds and cultural experiences to explore the way that culture impinges on motivation. Exploring topics such as personal values and motives, intercultural exchange in the workplace, the intrapsychic process and the nexus between biology and culture, they formulate theories of motivation that can be applied in the modern multicultural world.
Contributors include: Dona Lee Davis, Russell Geen, Joan Miller, John Paul Scott, William Wedenoja, Elisa J. Sobo and Stephen Wilson.
Donald Munro is conjoint Associate Professor of Psychology in the
School of Psychology at The University of Newcastle in Newcastle, Australia.
Stuart C. Carr is Professor of Psychology at Massey University in
Auckland Aotearoa/New Zealand.
John F. Schumaker is a retired clinical psychologist, academic,author,and social critic who lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick,Canada. For 35 years prior to moving to Canada, he and his musicianwife Cheryl Shantz lived in New Zealand, Australia, and before thatZambia, South Africa, and the USA. His self-authored books are In Search of Happiness: Understanding an Endangered State of Mind (Kindle 2016;Penguin Books2006; German edition Das Manipulierte Gluck: Von dentrügerischen Verheißungen der Konsumkultur: WJS, Berlin); The Age ofInsanity:Modernity and Mental Health (Praeger); The Corruption ofReality: A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis, and Psychopathology(PrometheusBooks); and Wings of Illusion (Prometheus Books). His edited books are Religion and Mental Health (Oxford University Press), HumanSuggestibility (Routledge); Cultural Cognition andPsychopathology(Praeger); Psychology and the Developing World (Praeger); Motivation and Culture (Routledge); and Perspectives on Belief andExperience (PrismPress). Schumaker's essays include "Reality andUnreality: The Growing Power of the Lie" (2020, LA Progressive), andseveral essays published in the UK by The New Internationalist magazine, among them "The Personality Crisis," "The Demoralized Mind," "TheHappiness Conspiracy," "The Triumph of Triviality," "Utopia or Bust,""Dying for the Things We Love," "Earth Warrior," "Dead Zone," and"Starstruck."
His earlier essays from various other sourcesinclude "Killing the Things We Love," "Rubber Soul," "Ocean Warrior,""Immune to Satisfaction," and "Mark of the Beast." 
