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Understanding Human Motivation : What Makes People Tick?
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Understanding Human Motivation : What Makes People Tick? Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Laming, Donald

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  • Title Understanding Human Motivation : What Makes People Tick?
  • Author Laming, Donald
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 330
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
  • Date 2003-08-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9405427-6
  • ISBN 9780631219835 / 0631219838
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.7 x 0.97 in (24.38 x 17.02 x 2.46 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motivation (Psychology)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002154555
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153.8

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First line

Why should a book on human motivation be concerned with determinism and free will?

From the rear cover

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.

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Citations

  • Choice, 03/01/2004, Page 1374

About the author

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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