Personal Causation: The Internal Affective Determinants of BehaviorFirst published in 1983. This book is primarily intended to make a theoretical contribution, to suggest a somewhat novel way of approaching the problems of human motivation, to break from tradition. The aim of this work is to stimulate the reader to think on a broad scale about big problems and to temper these thoughts with the detailed facts of empirical investigations. |
Contents
PART II AFFECT STIMULATION AND BEHAVIOR | 61 |
PART III THOUGHT SAMPLING AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION | 177 |
PART IV PERSONAL CAUSATION | 255 |
References | 359 |
Author Index | 377 |
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Personal Causation: The Internal Affective Determinants of Behavior R. de Charms Limited preview - 2013 |
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