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
| 1933 | |
The Three Dilemmas | 1956 |
Theoretical Problems | |
Specific Modern Applications | |
The Acquisition of Affective Relationships | |
Thoughts Action and Achievement Motivation | |
Summary | |
Motivation Objectivity and Personal Causation | |
The Attribution Process and Inferred Motivation | |
Personal Causation and the Internal Determinants | |
We Can Know More than We Can Tell | |
Author Index | |
Subject Index | |
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Personal Causation: The Internal Affective Determinants of Behavior R. de Charms Limited preview - 2013 |
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