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Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick?
Donald Laming
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Description for Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick?
Paperback. A preesentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience and society determine what we do. Laming draws on laboratory experiments, social surveys, and anecdotes to explore the driving forces behind many different domains of human behaviour, both individual and social. Num Pages: 336 pages, 34. BIC Classification: JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 602.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631219835
SKU
V9780631219835
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About Donald Laming
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).
Reviews for Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick?
"This new book on human motivation by Donald Laming represents a fresh look at an important area of psychology. The material is presented in the original idiom of real life stories in newspapers, which serve to illuminate classical controversies in social psychology. Although the book also has some novel theoretical insights, it should be particularly useful for students beginning in ... Read more